Smartphone App Enhanced Facilitation Among Veterans in a Mental Health Inpatient Setting (Project HOPE)

Inclusion Criteria: Those enrolled in the RCT component of this study must be: * 1\) Veterans aged 18 or older * 2\) admitted to the inpatient psychiatric unit for a recent suicidal crisis * 3\) medically stable (the patient's medical and psychological fitness \[including aggression\] to provide informed consent will be determined by a member of the patient's treatment team) * 4\) A score of 3 or greater on the Callahan 6-item cognitive screening. * 5\) report current suicidal ideation (Scale for Suicidal Ideation \[SSI\]; sum of items 4 and 5 \> 0, referencing the week prior to their hospitalization) as reported during the screening interview * 6\) no reported use of the VHB within the past 12-months * 7\) access to a smartphone to download the VHB app Exclusion Criteria: Veterans will be found ineligible for the program if: * 1\) do not understand English * 2\) are prisoners * 3\) are unable to provide informed consent * 4\) have profound psychotic symptoms and/or cognitive deficits that would prevent patients from understanding the content of the intervention and/or assessments * 5\) to not have access to a smartphone