Suicidal ideation has a specific clinical definition
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Suicidal ideation is a clinically defined term evaluated using established psychiatric criteria and standardized psychometric instruments.
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Assessment of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adults: A systematic review of measure psychometric properties and implications for clinical and research utility.
2024 · cited by 7
This study discusses the availability and implementation of reliable and valid measures of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) that conform to empirically supported definitions.
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Between Help and Harm: An Evaluation Study of Mental Health Crisis Handling by Large Language Models.
2026 · cited by 2
This paper introduces a unified taxonomy of clinically informed mental health crisis categories, including suicidal ideation, grounded in clinical best practices.