Low Risk
- Depressed, irritable, or apathetic mood
- Rapid mood swings accompanied by excessive talkativeness, activity level, or excitability
- Extremely poor academic performance or a change from high to low grades
- Missed tests or an inability to remain awake in class
- Excessive absences, especially if prior class attendance was good
- Unusual or noticeably changed interaction patterns in the classroom (such as withdrawal from family & friends)
- Noticeable change in appearance and hygiene
- Verbal expressions of hopelessness or thoughts of death & dying
- Excessive worrying
- Significant change in life circumstances (such as job loss, death of a loved one, divorce)
- Suspected alcohol or drug abuse
Moderate Risk
- History of aggression, violence, bullying, or stalking behaviors
- Destruction of personal and/or school property
- Defiance of and/or contempt for authority, rules, limits
- Excessively argumentative or numerous conflicts in interpersonal interactions
- Verbal aggression (use of derogatory or profane language)
- Hostile tone of voice and threatening or intimidating behaviors or body language
- Comments about weapons or stories of harming others
- Intense and inappropriate reactions, such as prolonged irritability or angry outbursts
- Excessive distrust or paranoia of others
- Perceived harassment, bullying, or ostracizing by others
- Attempts to isolate self from others
- Identifying or idolizing individuals who have engaged in acts of violence against others
- Preoccupation with weapons, violent events or activities, or hate groups
- Communications (either verbal, written, or via email) containing aggressive and possibly violent content
- Suspected alcohol or drug abuse
High Risk
- Verbal or written threats to harm self or others
- Recent attempts to obtain weapons
- Self-injurious behaviors (such as self-cutting, self-burning)
- Preparing for death (such as giving away possessions, saying goodbye, writing a will)
- History of previous suicide attempts
- Loss of contact with reality (seeing/hearing/feeling things not apparent to others, thoughts or behavior inconsistent with reality)
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Disturbed speech or communication content (incoherent speech, grandiose beliefs, disorganized or rambling or paranoid thoughts