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.

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. .