#  No Easy, Reliable Way to Screen for Suicide (NPR) 

 





March 31, 2015

 

 

"As a field, we're not very good at accurately predicting who is at risk for suicidal behavior," says Matthew Nock, a psychology professor at Harvard. He says studies show that mental health professionals "perform no better than chance" when it comes to predicting which patients will attempt suicide. Listen [here](http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/31/396399647/no-easy-reliable-way-to-screen-for-suicide-specialists-say).



 

 

 



 

 

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