Product Description: This clinical manual offers essential tools and guidance for therapists of any orientation faced with the complex challenges of assessing and treating a suicidal patient. In a large, ready-to-photocopy format, the book provides step-by-step instructions and reproducible forms for evaluating suicidal risk, developing a suicide-specific outpatient treatment plan, and tracking clinical progress and outcomes using documentation that can help to reduce the risk of malpractice liability...read more

This volume reflects on what is current and promising in working with the suicidal adolescent. It provides information relevant to theory, research, practice and intervention. Empirically-based findings, which can be integrated into practice by the clinician, are also given.