Suicide Risk Management: A Manual for Health Professionals, 2nd Edition

Objectives, ix

1 The Importance of Suicide Awareness and Assessment, 1

2 Understanding Suicide Risk, 13

3 Suicide Risk Assessment, 56

4 Putting It All Together: Tool for Assessment of Suicide Risk (TASR), 88

5 Special Topics in Understanding and Evaluating Suicide Risk, 94

6 Suicide Prevention, 110

7 Suicide Intervention, 115

8 Post-suicide Intervention: Caring for Survivors, 123

9 Care for the Carer: Death of a Patient by Suicide, 130

10 Clinical Vignettes for Group or Individual Study, 135

Appendix A Tool for Assessment of Suicide Risk (TASR), 140

Appendix B 6-ITEM Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale: KADS, 142

Appendix C My Safety Plan, 144

Index, 147