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Suicide risk assessment is a process of estimating the likelihood for a person to attempt or die by suicide.The goal of a thorough risk assessment is to learn about the circumstances of an individual person with regard to suicide, including warning signs, risk factors, and protective factors. [1]
Psychological autopsy in suicidology (or also psychiatric autopsy) is a systematic procedure for evaluating suicidal intention in equivocal cases. [1] [2] [3] It was invented by American psychologists Norman Farberow and Edwin S. Shneidman during their time working at the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, which they founded in 1958.
The Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised (SBQ-R) is a psychological self-report questionnaire designed to identify risk factors for suicide in children and adolescents between ages 13 and 18. The four-question test is filled out by the child and takes approximately five minutes to complete.
An individual exhibiting even a single behavior identified by the scale was 8 to 10 times more likely to die by suicide. [2] [3] Patients are asked about "general non-specific thoughts of wanting to end one’s life/complete suicide" and if they have had "...thoughts of suicide and have thought of at least one method during the assessment period."
The SAD PERSONS scale is an acronym utilized as a mnemonic device.It was first developed as a clinical assessment tool for medical professionals to determine suicide risk, by Patterson et al. [1] The Adapted-SAD PERSONS Scale was developed by Gerald A. Juhnke for use with children in 1996.
Suicide watch (sometimes shortened to SW) is an intensive monitoring process used to ensure that any person cannot attempt suicide. Usually the term is used in reference to inmates or patients in a prison , hospital , psychiatric hospital or military base .
Suicidologists believe that suicide is largely preventable with the right actions, knowledge about suicide, and a change in society's view of suicide to make it more acceptable to talk about suicide. There are many different fields and disciplines involved with suicidology, the two primary ones being psychology and sociology.
The BHS moderately correlates with the Beck Depression Inventory, although research shows that the BDI is better suited for predicting suicidal ideation behavior. [3] The internal reliability coefficients are reasonably high (Pearson r = 0.82 to 0.93 in seven norm groups), but the BHS test-retest reliability coefficients are modest (0.69 after one week and 0.66 after six weeks).