Preventing patient suicide : clinical assessment and management /
by Robert I. Simon
- 1st ed.
- Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Pub., 2011
- xiii, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Suicide risk assessment: gateway to treatment and management -- Enhancing suicide risk assessment: evidence-based psychiatry -- Assessing and enhancing protective factors against suicide -- Behavioral risk assessment of the guarded suicidal patient -- Psychiatric disorders and suicide risk -- Sudden improvement of the high risk suicidal patient: real or feigned? -- Acute and chronic high risk suicidal patients: crisis management -- Safety management of the suicidal patient: coping with uncertainty -- Gun safety management of suicidal patients: a collaborative approach -- Suicide risk assessment forms : clinician beware -- Imminent suicide, passive suicidal ideation, and other intractable myths -- Quality assurance review of suicide risk assessments: reality and remedy -- Therapeutic risk management of the suicidal patient: clinical-legal dilemmas