Mental health professionals, who often are tasked with evaluating and managing the risk of violence by their patients, may benefit from a simple tool to more accurately make a risk assessment, ...

A team of doctors in Ottawa have created a new survey to help assess the risk of suicide at hospital emergency departments, which is expected to help fill a void in mental health care for youth.

May 25 -- Emergency department patients who may be suicidal can be identified with a simple tool designed for use by health professionals without a mental health background. The risk-assessment ...

One of these is the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), which measures the severity of someone’s depression and ends by asking them how often they have thoughts about self-harm or suicide.

Sun Life launches “eye-opening” mental health tool. ... According to Sun Life, its recently-launched Mental Health Risk Assessment and Consulting Services can give employers an “immediate snapshot” of ...

Vancouver Coastal Health ... tool “doesn’t align with my understanding of what a comprehensive risk assessment would typically look like,” and said he is worried by the idea of MAID and ...