A clinician's guide to suicide risk assessment and management

Includes bibliographical references.

Purpose and background -- Understanding suicide and self-harm -- The content of the suicide risk assessment -- Suicide risk assessment tools and instruments -- Management of patients with acute suicidality -- Documentation and communication -- Suicide risk assessment quality monitoring -- Case studies.

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 factors. Based on recent evidence and an extensive literature review, the book provides straightforward, essential information that can easily be applied in a wide variety of disciplines.