Mental health practitioners’ views on assessing suicide risk in the emergency department: navigating a challenging assessment process.
It is unsurprising that MHP experience moral injury that can be manifested as amplify biases and compassion fatigue. This calls for changes to support staff striving to make assessments therapeutic and we recommend both top-down and bottom-up initiatives to improve the experiences of MHPs and their patients.
Authors
- Rose McCabe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2041-7383)
- Penny Xanthopoulou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1510-3382)
- Mimi Suzuki
- Mary Ryan
Institutions
- City, University of London (GB)
- University of Exeter (GB)
- London South Bank University (GB)
- Centre for Mental Health (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Mental Health
- Published
- 2025-11-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2025.2585205
- Primary Topic
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00