If You Want to Know, Consider Asking: How Likely Is It That Patients Will Hurt Themselves in the Future?

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 626-634

  Peterson, Jillian ^a,b   Skeem, Jennifer ^a   Manchak, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Gateway Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Risk assessment; Self harm; Self prediction; Suicide related behaviors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; DEPRESSION; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SELF HARM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION;

EID: 80052752267     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022971     Document Type: Article

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