Resource Tag: ASSESSMENT
xLCSH; See also Evaluation
Suicide in hospitalized medical-surgical patients: exploring nurses’ attitudes.
Internationally, suicide represents a major health issue. Inpatient suicide is the second most common sentinel event reported to The Joint Commission, which has identified suicide prevention as a National Patient Safety Goal. Suicide prevention is influenced by nursesÕ ability to accurately assess a patientÕs suicide risk. Evidence suggests that lack of knowledge and unfavorable attitudes […]
The current status of graduate training in suicide risk assessment.
Directors and coordinators ( n = 75) of graduate programs in school psychology approved by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) were surveyed regarding their training practices in suicide risk assessment. Respondents viewed the assessment of suicide risk as an important part of graduate instruction, and most believed that students completing training at their […]
Cognitive behavioural prevention of suicide in psychosis: A treatment manual.
This practical and informative text lays out the product of a number of years of clinical research into suicide behaviour and its prevention. While the focus is on non-affective psychosis and the schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, the mechanisms underlying suicide behaviour in this group may well underlie or at least influence suicide behaviour in other disorders. The […]
Overview and assessment of the suicidal child.
A comprehensive evaluation and assessment of the suicidal child is important to target those at risk. This article identifies risk factors for suicide in children and adolescents and provides a step-by-step interview scheme that captures all relevant information that is obtained when assessing these children and adolescents.
Understanding suicide risk: Indentification of high-risk groups during high-risk times.
The assessment of suicide risk is a complex task for mental health professionals. Certain demographic groups are associated with completed suicide including males, divorced adults, and Caucasians. However, demographic variables alone provide a crude assessment of suicide risk. Psychiatric diagnosis and recent life events might improve the identification of high-risk individuals.
Sentiment analysis of suicide notes: A shared task
This paper reports on a shared task involving the assignment of emotions to suicide notes. Two features distinguished this task from previous shared tasks in the biomedical domain. One is that it resulted in the corpus of fully anonymized clinical text and annotated suicide notes. This resource is permanently available and will (we hope) facilitate […]