From: NPR
No Easy, Reliable Way To Screen For Suicide
April 2, 2015
NPR:
Even a careful psychiatric examination of the co-pilot involved in last week’s Germanwings jetliner crash probably would not have revealed whether he intended to kill himself, researchers say.
“As a field, we’re not very good at accurately predicting who is at risk for suicidal behavior,” says Matthew Nock, a psychology professor at Harvard. He says studies show that mental health professionals “perform no better than chance” when it comes to predicting which patients will attempt suicide.
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