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Face to face with the suicidal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gethin Morgan ,
Carole Buckley  and
Mike Nowers
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The clinical assessment and management of suicide risk depends primarily on face to face contact with the individual who presents the risk, and aims to predict behaviour in the very near future. Whether or not clinical intervention prevents suicide depends a great deal on the clinician's skill in reaching out to the individual patient. This poses a dilemma, because much of what has been written about predicting suicide has been based on averaged data concerning long-term outcome in large cohorts of patients.

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , July 1998 , pp. 188 - 196
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1998 

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