Suicide Risk Assessment

Assessment, Documentation, and Policy 2015

This presentation focues on the implementation of a suicide assessment and management policy.

1 - Suicide Risk Assessment Receive recent updates to released data regarding suicide in Canada, and understand the motivation behind suicidal thinking. A focus on separation of self injury from suicide is applied.
2 - Suicide Documentation A review of guidelines, tools, and approahces to documenting suicide risk.
3 - Case Examples Using the ASARI to document risk in a simple high-risk, simple low-risk, and complicated chronic risk case.

This presentation was given in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on May 7 to 8, 2015.

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Other Files:

Screening for Suicide
Click above to read about the importance of, the rationale for, and the methods to screen for suicide in youth.

ASARI Documentation Tool
Click above to go to ASARI.ca, and download the latest version of this leading-practice documentation tool for suicide risk.




Examples

Example: Chronic Complicated

Example: Few Risk Factors

Example: High Risk Factors



ASARI - Leading Practice
Follow this link to Accreditation Canada's establisment of the ASARI as a leading practice for suicide risk assessment.

About the Author

Dr. Tyler R. Black graduated completed his Bachelor of Science with Honours in Pharmacology at the University of Alberta in 1999, and completed medical school at the same university in 2003. He completed residency training in Psychiatry at Dalhousie University and the University of British Columbia in 2008, and completed his Child and Adolescent Psychiatry subspecialty that same year. He works primarily at BC Children's Hospital on the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency (CAPE) Unit where he is currently the Medical Director. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Black's primary research and clinical interests include: emergency psychiatry, suicidology, violence and video games, and cross-cultural psychiatry.

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