Suicide and suicide attempts among adolescents are significant public health problems. Consequently, identifying at-risk youth in time to provide intervention not only helps to prevent suicides and suicide-related injuries but improves young persons' overall quality of life and increases the chances for healthy and productive lives. The challenge is determining how to recognize which adolescents are most vulnerable.Believing that adolescent suicide can be prevented, Peter Gutierrez and Augustine Osman have developed a set of tools for assessing suicide risk, designed especially for...