Establishing standards for the assessment of suicide risk among callers to the national suicide prevention lifeline

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 353-365

  Joiner, Thomas ^a   Kalafat, John ^b   Draper, John ^c   Stokes, Heather ^d   Knudson, Marshall ^e   Berman, Alan L ^f   McKeon, Richard ^g  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Program   (United States)

^d Link2Health Solutions Inc   (United States)

^e Alachua County Crisis Center   (United States)

^f American Association of Suicidology   (United States)

^g SAMHSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; TELEPHONE;

CRISIS INTERVENTION; HOTLINES; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 34250842512     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2007.37.3.353     Document Type: Article

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