A colleague pointed me to a nice article on suicide risk assessment written by David J. Muzina, MD in the September issue of Current Psychiatry Online. The article is well-written and well-organized. The stepwise approach described can be quite helpful. I wish the article included more on documentation (there is only one sample note, and I’m not [...]
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Archive | September 28, 2007
Reminder from the bridge: Suicidal individuals are full of ambivalence
Today Mike Hogan, Ph.D., the Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health honored RNN-TV and the NYS Bridge authority for their work in suicide prevention. The bridge authority put up signs and installed lifeline phones with direct link to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. For clinicians assessing and managing suicide risk, the [...]
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September 28, 2007

