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Hear from experts working to reduce firearm injury
Understanding Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide: A Primer for Preventing Suicide
Critical care information for clinicians on identifying risk and protective factors to assess and manage suicide risk in individuals.
Veteran Affairs: PREVENTS
The President's Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End a National Tragedy of Suicide (PREVENTS) focuses on a public health approach to preventing suicide among veterans and suicide members.
CALM: Counseling on Access to Lethal Means
Training course provided by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) on how to reduce access to lethal means for people at risk for suicide.
Means Matter: Recommendations for Clinicians
Recommendations for clinicians on lethal means counseling for patients at risk of suicide.
Law Enforcement Agencies’ Perceptions of the Benefits of and Barriers to Temporary Firearm Storage to Prevent Suicide
This article discusses the perceived benefits and barriers to providing voluntary and temporary firearm transfer and storage by law enforcement agencies.
2012 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action
The National Strategy is a joint effort by the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General and Action Alliance to guide suicide prevention actions in the United States with goals and objectives for action. States
Tarasoff and the clinician: problems in fulfilling the duty to protect
Guidelines to dealing with the Tarasoff doctrine and presentation of a three-part model--identifying the requirements of assessment, selection of a course of action, and implementation with clinical case examples.
No Duty to Warn in California: Now Unambiguously Solely a Duty to Protect
This article clarifies information about the Tarasoff duty in California law and therapists' clinical practice and duties after a determination that their patients are at risk for acting dangerously.
Back to the Past in California: A Temporary Retreat to a Tarasoff Duty to Warn
A historical synopsis of the Tarasoff duty to warn in California before the 2004 decisions and recent efforts in healthcare to remedy the legislation.
Psychiatric Malpractice Grand Rounds: The Tarasoff Dilemma
James L. Knoll IV, MD, provides forensic analysis on a duel case report: To Invoke or Not to Invoke: Tarasoff Is the Question, by Elliott B. Martin Jr, MD.
APA: Position Statement on Firearm Access, Acts of Violence and the Relationship to Mental Illness and Mental Health Services
The American Psychiatric Association's statement highlights the need to reduce morbidity and mortality related to firearm violence and lists its positions on numerous issues related to firearm ownership.
Care of the Psychiatric Patient in the Emergency Department – A Review of the Literature
A reference tool and guide, developed by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), evaluating best practices for management and care of psychiatric patients admitted to the emergency department.