What is it about?
Clinicians are tasked with assessing risk for suicide among patients entering treatment. The assessment of that risk relies on questions lacking in clarity, resulting in responses lacking in meaning.
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Why is it important?
Understanding a patient's risk for suicide is essential to establishing protections for the patient and treatment plans to reduce that risk.
Perspectives
Psychiatry, psychology and related fields of mental health care need greater sensitivity to how inquiry begets responses that may or may not denote risk for suicide. Research is needed to better clarify whether our questions are appropriate to derive sought-after answers.
Alan Berman
Johns Hopkins University
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This page is a summary of: How to Ask About Suicide? A Question in Need of an Empirical Answer, Crisis, July 2017, Hogrefe Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000501.
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