Kelly Posner is trying to save lives. As director of the Center for Suicide Risk Assessment, she led a team from Columbia?s Department of Psychiatry in developing a tool that successfully predicts suicidal intent.
In a study published in the November 8 AJP in Advance, the early edition of The American Journal of Psychiatry, University researchers found that the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) is not only pivotal to assessing suicidal behavior, but it can help predict an attempt.
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