Abstract
This review discusses suicide warning signs in clinical practice and has three simple goals: 1) to help practitioners differentiate in a clinically meaningful fashion between warning signs and risk factors for suicide; 2) to articulate the link among warning signs for suicide, hopelessness, and intent to die; and 3) to assist practitioners in applying warning signs in day-to-day clinical practice, doing so in a concrete and effective manner.
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Rudd, M.D. Suicide warning signs in clinical practice. Curr Psychiatry Rep 10, 87–90 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-008-0015-4
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