Exam 11: Comprehensive Risk Assessments: Suicide and Dangerousness to Others

When assessing suicide risk it is helpful for clinicians to combine information obtained from interviews with data from a standardized questionnaire because:

According to criteria developed by Bryan and Rudd, a person's risk of attempting suicide would be considered severe when:

All of the following would be considered a risk factor for suicide except for:

Which of the following standardized suicide questionnaires emphasizes the assessment of protective factors:

Which of the following is considered a limitation of standardized suicide assessment measures?

Recent research has shown that there can be a relationship between how an individual scores on an anger-hostility measure and future:

What are the risk and protective factors to consider when assessing an individual's potential for violence?

What is the difference between active and passive suicidal ideation?

How do you determine whether an individual is at moderate versus severe risk for suicide?

Research has shown that clinicians are somewhat good at predicting:

When a counselor assesses the degree to which a client poses a danger to someone else it is important to consider which of the following factors:

Which individuals are more likely to engage in premeditated violence?

When evaluating a client's risk for suicide it is important for counselors to consider protective factors because these factors are:

What is the difference between acts of self-harm and suicide attempts?

If a counselor was working with a couple and wanted a standardized way to assess for domestic violence, which standardized questionnaire would be helpful to use?

Physical and verbal aggression can be assessed with which of the following standardized measures:

Identify a specific standardized measure that you would use to assess suicide risk and when would you use that measure?

A professional's ability to make predictions about who will attempt suicide based on standardized measures is limited because:

The Suicide Assessment Checklist is:

People suffering from schizophrenia are more prone to attempt suicide because: