TY - JOUR
PY - 2019//
TI - Children are different: liability issues in working with suicidal and dangerous youths
JO - Focus : journal of life long learning in psychiatry
A1 - Ash, Peter
SP - 355
EP - 359
VL - 17
IS - 4
N2 - While many of the principles of assessing risk to self and others in adults are applicable to risk assessments of children and adolescents, developmental and legal factors regarding youths give rise to some significant differences. This article highlights major differences in assessing and managing risk in working with suicidal and homicidal youths and gives suggestions for reducing clinicians' liability in these challenging cases.
Copyright © by the American Psychiatric Association.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 1541-4094 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.focus.20190018 ID - ref1 ER -