(Ebook) Improving Care to Prevent Suicide among People with Serious Mental Illness: Proceedings of a Workshop by and Medicine Engineering National Academies of Sciences; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; and Families Youth Board on Children; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Health Care Services; Steve Olson ISBN 9780309486958, 0309486955

(Ebook) Improving Care to Prevent Suicide among People with Serious Mental Illness: Proceedings of a Workshop by and Medicine Engineering National Academies of Sciences; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; and Families Youth Board on Children; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Health Care Services; Steve Olson ISBN 9780309486958, 0309486955

Suicide prevention initiatives are part of much broader systems connected to activities such as the diagnosis of mental illness, the recognition of clinical risk, improving access to care, and coordinating with a broad range of outside agencies and entities around both prevention and public health efforts. Yet suicide is also an intensely personal issue that continues to be surrounded by stigma. On September 11-12, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in Washington, DC, to discuss preventing suicide among people with serious mental illness. The workshop was designed to illustrate and discuss what is known, what is currently being done, and what needs to be done to identify and reduce suicide risk. Improving Care to Prevent Suicide Among People with Serious Mental Illness summarizes presentations and discussions of the workshop.