explain what further steps and/or interventions you would take as the clientÂ’s social worker based on the suicide risk assessment. Not every client who enters the clinical setting will be experiencing suicidal ideation. However it is important to be aware that higher rates of suicide do occur in the adult male and elderly/aging adult male populations (Hedegaard et al. 2021). So what does this mean for practice? Social workers must be aware of the warning signs and use those signs to gauge whether a formal risk assessment is needed.
