| Description |
xiii, 221 pages ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
Today's psychiatrists practice in an environment that poses difficult challenges. Both treatment time and duration are limited by insurance requirements; many facilities are understaffed; split treatment arrangements are typical; and high-risk, acutely suicidal patients are admitted to inpatient units for short lengths of stay. In addition, law now plays a pervasive role in the practice of psychiatry. The doctor-patient relationship is no longer defined solely by the involved parties. Clinicians must juggle these requirements and limitations while providing the very best care to their patients, especially those at high risk. Preventing Patient Suicide: Clinical Assessment and Management provides the wisdom of Dr. Robert I. Simon's vast clinical experience, combined with the latest insights from the evidence-based psychiatric literature, to offer a cutting-edge survey of suicide prevention and management techniques |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Suicidal behavior -- Risk factors.
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Suicide -- Prevention.
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Suicide -- Risk factors.
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Suicide -- prevention & control.
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Mental Disorders -- complications.
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Mentally Ill Persons -- psychology.
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Patients -- psychology.
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Risk Assessment -- methods.
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| LC no. |
2010026853 |
| ISBN |
9781585629343 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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