Improving Care to Prevent Suicide Among People with Serious Mental Illness: Proceedings of a Workshop

Improving Care to Prevent Suicide Among People with Serious Mental Illness: Proceedings of a Workshop
ISBN-10
0309486971
ISBN-13
9780309486972
Category
Medical
Pages
130
Language
English
Published
2019-03-19
Publisher
National Academies Press
Authors
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Health Care Services, Health and Medicine Division

Description

Suicide prevention initiatives are part of much broader systems connected to activities such as the diagnosis of mental illness, the recognition of clinical risk, improving access to care, and coordinating with a broad range of outside agencies and entities around both prevention and public health efforts. Yet suicide is also an intensely personal issue that continues to be surrounded by stigma. On September 11-12, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in Washington, DC, to discuss preventing suicide among people with serious mental illness. The workshop was designed to illustrate and discuss what is known, what is currently being done, and what needs to be done to identify and reduce suicide risk. Improving Care to Prevent Suicide Among People with Serious Mental Illness summarizes presentations and discussions of the workshop.

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