TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Routinized categorization of suicide risk into actionable strata: establishing the validity of an existing suicide risk assessment framework in an outpatient sample
JO  - Journal of clinical psychology (Hoboken)
A1  - Gallyer, Austin J.
A1  - Chu, Carol
A1  - Klein, Kelly M.
A1  - Quintana, Jazmine
A1  - Carlton, Corinne
A1  - Dougherty, Sean P.
A1  - Joiner, Thomas E.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - OBJECTIVE: The Suicide Risk Assessment and Management Decision Tree (DT) is a clinician-administered assessment that leads to risk categorizations that correspond with actionable strata. This study investigated the construct validity and test-retest reliability of the DT risk categories across two time points.     METHOD: Outpatients (N = 731) completed a battery of self-report measures. Spearman's correlations were used to examine the relationships between DT suicide risk level and suicidal symptoms, theory-based risk factors, psychiatric correlates, and DT suicide risk level at Timepoint 2. Correlations were analyzed for significant differences to examine the divergent validity of the DT.     RESULTS: Results, overall, were in line with hypotheses, with the exception of depression and thwarted belongingness.     CONCLUSIONS: Findings provide evidence for the reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity of the DT. This clinician-administered suicide risk assessment may be useful for standardization of the assessment and management of suicide risk in outpatient clinical settings.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0021-9762
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22994
ID  - ref1
ER  -