Assessment of suicide risk

Suicide risk assessment refers to the process of evaluating an individual's likelihood of dying by suicide. While commonly practiced in psychiatric and emergency care settings, suicide risk assessments lack predictive accuracy and do not improve clinical outcomes^[1][2][3] and it has even been suggested that clinicians doing suicide risk assessments may be putting their "own professional anxieties above the needs of service users and paradoxically, increasing the risks of suicide following self-harm.”^[3]