Training for suicide risk assessment and suicide risk formulation

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 526-537

  Silverman, Morton M ^a   Berman, Alan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b American Association of Suicidology   (United States)

Author keywords

Interviewing; Psychiatry residents; Suicide; Supervision; Teaching methods

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HUMAN; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHIATRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

EID: 84907193647     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: 15457230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40596-014-0200-1     Document Type: Review

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