Suicide Risk Assessment: Moving from the Impossible to Suicide Prevention
Professor Keith Hawton, Director of the Centre for Suicide Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
Tuesday, 27 February 2018, 9.30am to 10.30am
Seminar Room, Oxford University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX
Professor Hawton is Director of the Centre for Suicide Research in the University Department of Psychiatry and Consultant Psychiatrist with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. Much of his work has focussed on the prevention of suicidal behaviour. In this presentation he will examine the evidence which shows that suicide risk assessment and prediction do not work and highlight the need to focus on suicide risk reduction.