Preventing patient suicide
Subtitle: clinical assessment and management
By: Robert I. Simon
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781585629473; 9781585629343
Subjects: Suicide; Psychology; Risk Assessment; Suicidal behavior; Mentally Ill Persons; Methods; Patients; Complications; Medicine; Prevention & control; Mental Disorders; Risk factors; Prevention; PSYCHOLOGY
Description: In this book Simon synthesizes his clinical experience, the shared clinical experiences of colleagues, and the evidence-based psychiatric literature to create an insightful guide which should be an essential component in any practicing psychiatrist's library.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Suicide risk assessment : a gateway to treatment and management; title: Enhancing suicide risk assessment through evidence-based psychiatry; title: Assessing and enhancing protective factors against suicide; title: Behavioral risk assessment of the guarded suicidal patient; title: Psychiatric disorders and suicide risk; title: Sudden improvement in patients at high risk for suicide : real or feigned?; title: Patients at acute and chronic high risk suicide : crisis management; title: Safety management of the patient at risk for suicide : coping with uncertainty; title: Gun safety management of suicidal patients : a collaborative approach; title: Suicide risk assessment forms : clinician beware; title: Imminent suicide, passive suicidal ideation, and other intractable myths; title: Quality assurance review of suicide risk assessments : reality and remedy; title: Therapeutic risk management of the patient at risk for suicide : clinical-legal dilemmas.