Toolkit: Suicide Risk Assessment and Response to Patient Suicide
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Books:
Myers M. Touched By Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss
Written with Carla Fine, author of the best-selling No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One (Broadway Books/ Doubleday 1999).