PROTECT: Navigating Risk vs Recovery – Practical Uses of the Care Compass

In this course, Dr. Manaan Kar Ray (Director, Suicide Prevention Framework, Division of Mental Health, Princess Alexandra Hospital; Associate Professor at the Institute for Australian Suicide and Prevention Research, Griffith University), explains the origins and key concepts of his PROTECT framework for preventing suicide, highlighting the CORE, ASSESS, and ASPIRE modules and emphasising the crucial importance of relational safety. You watch a short video that uses the metaphor of a boat sailing through stormy seas to focus on the balance that must be struck between risk and recovery, and you learn about the Care Compass, a two-axis, four-quadrant tool for collaborative decision-making. It maps a client’s journey from the fragile early phase of recovery from a suicide attempt to the last phase, when the client’s resilience is higher, and care can be more permissive.