Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention

Maurizio Pompili, M.D, Ph.D. is Full Professor and Chair of Psychiatry as part of the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he received his M.D. degree, where he trained in Psychiatry (both summa cum laude). He is the Director of the Residency Training Program in Psychiatry of his faculty. He is the Director of the University Psychiatric Clinic and the Director of the Suicide Prevention Center at Sant’Andrea Hospital in Rome. He is the President of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Technique degree program at the Sapienza University of Rome.He has a doctoral degree in Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences. He was also part of the Community at McLean Hospital – Harvard Medical School, the USA, where he received a psychiatry fellowship. He is the recipient of the American Association of Suicidology’s 2008 Shneidman Award for “Outstanding contributions in research in suicidology.”Apart from being theItalian Representative of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) for many years, he has been afterward one of the Vice-Presidents of this association. He is now Co-Chair of the IASP Special Interest Group in Risk Resilience and Reasons for Living. At present, he is a member of the IASP Executive Committed in the role of treasures. He is also a member of the International Academy for Suicide Research and the American Association of Suicidology. He is also President of the Suicidology Section of the Italian Psychiatric Society;He has published more than 550 papers on suicide, bipolar disorders, and other psychiatric perspectives, including original research articles, book chapters, and editorials. He co-edited ten international books on suicide;He ranks in the top 10 suicide authors of 500 world suicide authors listed in the ISI Web of Science (this is in terms of the number of focused works on the topic of suicide that are indexed in the ISI Web ofScience).He has been recognized by Expertscape as an expert in suicide, ranking 1st worldwide.

• Theories and models of suicidal behaviour.- Neurobiological approach to the study of suicide.- The Journey Back from Suicide.- Suicide as Syndemic.- NSSI as an Entrypoint for Prevention with Adolescents and Young Adults.- Resilience Following a Suicide Attempt.- The Problems of the Unified Registrations of Suicide.- Risk and Protective Factors of Suicide from a Cultural Perspective.- Inadequacy of Training for Addressing Suicide.- Protective Factors Against Suicidal Behavior.-  Psychological pain as main ingredient of suicide risk.- Reasons for living in suicide prevention.- Suicide risk formulation.- The Modular Assessment of Risk for Imminent Suicide (MARIS).- How to ask about suicide.- Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality approach.- Differentiation of suicidal behaviour in clinical practice.- Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale.- Postdiction in the PA: A cue or formula.- Trauma and Suicide.