Chapter 1.Suicide Risk Assessment
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Death from suicide is a significant public health issue strongly associated with psychiatric illness and substance use disorders. Assessing suicide risk is a necessary clinical skill in all mental health and primary care settings and a core competency in medical student education and psychiatric residency training. To date, all comprehensive approaches to suicide prevention have included the training of health professionals as a critical component of their strategies (Schmitz et al. 2012). Physician education in suicide risk assessment and management begins with training in suicide risk assessment (SRA). SRA is the gateway to mental health treatment, one of only two interventions empirically demonstrated to reduce suicide mortality (Mann et al. 2005).
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