Key Elements of Person-centred Suicide Risk Assessment

In this course, Jacinta Hawgood, Senior Lecturer at the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Griffith University School of Applied Psychology, underscores the complex phenomenon that is suicidality and assessment for it, in that individuals’ desire and intent fluctuate according to their experience of both long-term risk factors, such as inherited propensity or a violent or traumatic early life, and also acute triggers, such as separation, loss, or financial problems. Hawgood goes over the principal frameworks for risk assessment, elaborating on the person-centred approach called STARS (Screening Tool for Assessing Risk of Suicide).