This book is divided into 2 parts: assessment & management. Part 1 includes chapters on: suicide risk assessment, enhancing suicide risk assessment through evidence-based psychiatry, assessing & enhancing protective factors against suicide risk, behavioral risk assessment of the guarded suicidal patient, psychiatric disorders & suicide risk, & sudden improvement in patients at high risk of suicide: real or feigned? The chapters in Part 2 include: patients at acute & chronic high risk for suicide, safety management of the patient at risk for suicide, gun safety management of suicidal patients, suicide risk assessment forms, imminent suicide, passive suicidal ideation, & other intractable myths, quality assurance review of suicide risk assessments, & therapeutic risk management of the patient at risk for suicide. An appendix provides a suicide risk assessment self-test for clinicians.