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Rocky Mountain MIRECC for Suicide Prevention has started a serial podcast called Short Takes on Suicide Prevention. We interview leaders in the field of suicide prevention in an attempt to make their research accessible to everyone.

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RMIRECC Short Takes - Response to abandoning suicide risk assessment

Mar 16, 2016

Adam Hoffberg interviews Dr. Peter Gutierrez about an editorial by Dr Declan Murray in the British Journal of Psychiatry Open (DOI: 10.1192/bjpo.bp.115.002071) in which Dr Murray discusses abandoning suicide risk assessment.

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patrick devitt
almost five years ago

Excellent discussion on a very important paper.
Intrinsic to the definition of risk is the idea of prediction. If prediction is not possible we should stop using the term risk. As Dr Guttierrez infers, a patient presenting with the language of suicide is saying he is in a state of distress which, in some cases, though not all, may be alleviated by mental health treatment.