Objective Suicide risk assessments are obligatory when patients express a death wish in clinical practice. Yet, suicide risk estimates based on unguided risk assessments have been shown to be of low reliability. Since generalizability of previous studies is limited, the current study aimed to assess inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of risk estimates conducted by psychotherapists and psychology students using written case vignettes.
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