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Summary and Conclusions: What Have we Learned About Suicide Assessment and Prediction? (IN: Assessment and Prediction of Suicide, edited by R W Maris et al)
Maris R W~~Berman A L~~et al
The focus of this chapter is to review the following salient issues in the study of suicide: what is being predicted or assessed; comorbidity and multivariate interdisciplinary models; timing issues; the problem of rare behaviours; false positives and false negatives; instruments or tools of assessment and prediction; and implications for treatment and suicide prevention.