Persistent Wishful Thinking Dominates Care for Suicidality
Psychology Today | 06.09.2026 21:46
For decades I have written about proven, evidence-based clinical care for suicidal risk (Jobes, 1995; 2020; 2023; Jobes & Barnett, 2025). My posts on this page often directly or indirectly focus on evidence-based, suicide-focused, clinical care that tends to fly in the face of conventional wisdom. I clearly have strong perspectives based on research on how people who struggle with serious thoughts of suicide should be identified, assessed, stabilized, and ultimately treated in terms of addressing what makes them consider suicide.