ABSTRACT
With hospital-based and residential care, while actively suicidal, 24-hour constant observation should be arranged in consultation with nursing or residential care staff. As part of the admission contract, the parents or legal guardians should be invited to attend a series of sessions aimed at planning ways to modify risk or triggering factors which contributed to the crisis and which when modified would create a safe context for discharge from hospital or residential care unit. Thereafter, the protocol outlined above for home-based care should be followed.
