- Title
- Clinician Perspectives of the Evidence Underpinning Suicide Risk Assessment: A Mixed Methods Study
- Creator
- Grant, Kellie; Whitwam, Louisa; Martin, Jennifer; White, Jennifer; Haines, Terry
- Relation
- Australian Social Work Vol. (In Press)
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2021.1874030
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- In recent years, suicide risk assessment has become the subject of a vigorous academic debate, due in part to several meta-analyses that have cast doubt on the accuracy of risk categorisation. Little is known about how clinicians make sense of this academic debate. However, it is anticipated that it may pose a tension due to organisational expectations that multidisciplinary health professionals, including social workers, assess and manage suicide risk. As part of a larger mixed methods study to be reported elsewhere, we conducted a qualitative study aiming to explore clinician perspectives on the evidence underpinning suicide risk assessment before and after being presented with the results of two meta-analyses. Findings highlight three modes of reasoning: academic, emotive, and experiential. Perceptions of accuracy of assessing suicide risk at baseline interviews and after hearing the evidence were influenced by heuristics and cognitive biases. [Final citation details to be advised.]
- Subject
- suicide risk; assessment and Intervention; perceptions of evidence; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1445209
- Identifier
- uon:42531
- Identifier
- ISSN:0312-407X
- Language
- eng
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