A Clinician's Guide to Suicide Risk Assessment and Management

• Main Author: Sadek, Joseph (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Psychiatry.; Psychology.; Psychology, general.

This book offers mental health clinicians a comprehensive guide to assessing and managing suicide risk. Suicide has now come to be understood as a multidimensionally determined outcome, which stems from the complex interaction of biological, genetic, psychological, sociological and environmental fac...

Table of Contents:

• Purpose and Background
• Understanding suicide and self-Harm
• The Content of Suicide Risk Assessment
• Suicide Risk Assessment Tool
• Management of Suicidal Patients
• Documentation and Communication
• Suicide Risk Assessment Quality Monitoring
• Appendix A-L.