Mental health practitioners express concerns on suicide risk evaluations in emergency departments, highlighting moral injury and compassion fatigue.
It is unsurprising that MHP experience moral injury that can be manifested as amplify biases and compassion fatigue. This calls for changes to support staff striving to make assessments therapeutic and we recommend both top-down and bottom-up initiatives to improve the experiences of MHPs and their patients.
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