Risk Factors Proximate to Suicide and Suicide Risk Assessment in the Context of Denied Suicide Ideation

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 340-352

  Berman, Alan L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANXIETY; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANXIETY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85018656301     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 1943278X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12351     Document Type: Article

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