The Practical Art of Suicide Assessment: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals and Substance Abuse Counselors by S.C. Shea
Here is a concise guidebook for mental health professionals on how to assess whether a client is at risk for suicide. Written by the author of the leading reference on clinical interviewing, this practical manual offers busy front-line clinicians a rapid, thorough, and sensitive interviewing strategy to determine lethal risk. This paperback version includes new appendices on suicide assessment instruments and how counselors can protect themselves during forensic inquiries.