Suicide Information for Physicians and Mental Health Care Providers: Risk Assessment and Intervention

This handbook provides physicians & other health care workers with suicide assessment & intervention techniques. Psychological, sociocultural & medical/psychiatric risk factors, risk factors for youth & elderly, key points for risk assessment, tips for evaluating suicide potential in patients, intervention “do’s” & “don’ts”, & family physician protocols for non-emergency, emergency & acute suicidal risk are listed. Emergency & resource listings for the London-Middlesex regions are included.