Suicide Assessment in Child and Adolescent Emergency Psychiatry (IN: Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, v.7, ed. by P L Adams and E Bleiberg)

This chapter discusses the assessment of suicidality when a young person presents in a psychiatric emergency. Precipitants of suicidal behaviour, risk factors, & protective factors are presented. The author stresses the importance of accurate assessment & briefly comments on involuntary hospitalization of young children to lower the risk of suicide. (32 refs) (SC)