Mon Jun 16 2025

<p> A season on consultation-liaison psychiatry would not be complete without an episode on suicide risk assessment!</p><p>Dr. Black: &quot;I say without exaggeration that this podcast, in which Dr. Mullen and I discuss suicide risk assessment, is one of the professional things in life that I am most proud of.&quot;</p><p>WOW! That&#39;s quite the claim from one of the world&#39;s foremost psychiatrists about a podcast episode. Take a listen and see what you think!</p><p>Dr. Tyler Black, a suicidologist and child psychiatrist at British Columbia Children&#39;s Hospital, walks through common suicide myths, structuring the suicide risk assessment interview, common motivations for suicide, clinical decision making, best practices for documentation, and what works in preventing suicide.</p><p>Selected references:</p><ol><li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15715807/#:~:text=suicide%20risk%20assessment-,Changeability%2C%20confidence%2C%20common%20sense%20and%20corroboration:%20c...