Assessment and Interviewing Strategies for Suicidal Patients Over the Life Cycle (IN: Suicide Over the Life Cycle, ed. by S J Blumenthal and D J Kupfer)

This article provides guidelines for interviewing patients to assess suicidal risk. The author asserts that a clinician’s interviewing style should be modified to the developmental level of the patients. He gives examples of age-specific techniques, as well as describing risk factors, coping abilities, guidelines for behavior assessment & effective communication. (VM)