TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Suicide intervention skills and related factors in community and health professionals
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Scheerder, Gert
A1  - Reynders, Alexandre
A1  - Andriessen, Karl
A1  - Van Audenhove, Chantal
SP  - 115
EP  - 124
VL  - 40
IS  - 2
N2  - Health and community professionals have considerable exposure to suicidal people and need to be well skilled to deal with them. We assessed suicide intervention skills with a Dutch version of the SIRI in 980 health and community professionals and psychology students. Suicide intervention skills clearly differed among professional groups and were strongly related to experience, especially suicide-specific experience. Some community professionals scored below acceptable levels on their ability to respond appropriately to suicidal people they encounter, and tended to overestimate their skills level. Training is therefore indicated for these groups, and may be useful to more highly experienced groups too.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/suli.2010.40.2.115
ID  - ref1
ER  -