Citation

Joiner Jr. TE, Walker RL, Rudd MD, Jobes DA. Prof. Psychol. Res. Pr. 1999; 30(5): 447-453.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/0735-7028.30.5.447

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Suicidal patients are difficult and challenging clinical problems. Conceptual tools aid the clinician in organizing and evaluating the clinical situation. The authors provide a framework for suicide risk assessment that emphasizes 2 domains - history of past attempt and the nature of current suicidal symptoms - that have emerged in suicide research as crucial variables. These domains, when combined with other categories of risk factors, produce a categorization of risk for the individual patient, leading, in turn, to relatively routinized clinical decision making and activity.

Language: en