Improving Care Provided to Patients Treated in a Level 1 Trauma Center Post-suicide Attempt

Inclusion Criteria: * at least 15 years of age * Inpatient on medical/surgical unit * Admitted following a suicide attempt * Sufficient English to benefit from psychotherapy in English * Consents to be a research participant Exclusion Criteria: * Lack of sufficient English to participate in psychotherapy in English * Prisoner/inmate at time of admission * Too cognitively impaired, delirious, or psychotic to respond to psychotherapeutic intervention before end of stay on medical/surgical unit. Determination of cognitive impairment, delirium, agitation, and psychosis will be determined through the referral phone call between the PI and the referring care provider, as well as the PI's own clinical assessment of the patient at the outset of the brief intervention.