Tag: suicide assessment
Suicide & Candy Corn: The Utility and Challenges of Risk Assessments
Researchers admit their suicide risk assessments work only about as well as random guessing, and they can lead to harm. We can instead focus on finding new ways to form connections that might help tether someone to this world.
Should You Ever Ask Someone āAre You Suicidal?”
For every person āAre you suicidal?ā may assist, there are many more of us who are scared into silence when those words are uttered. Why? Well, āAre you suicidal?ā is, in fact, the king of the suicide risk assessment questionnaire. āAre you suicidal?ā has become the red, neon, flashing sign that screams āStop! Donāt talk to me!ā Perhaps this might just explain why suicide risk assessments are well known not to work.
Meta-Analysis Finds Asking About Suicidal Thoughts Does Not Predict Suicide
A recent meta-analysis finds that the association between reported suicidal ideation and later suicide is low.