Symptoms of the suicide crisis syndrome and therapist emotional responses: associations to self-harm and death by suicide within 18-months post-discharge among patients at an acute psychiatric department.

The results indicated that patients with post-discharge episodes of self-harm are significantly different from patients who do not self-harm in terms of more intense symptoms of SCS during admission. Clinicians' negative emotional responses may be relevant in the assessment of the risk of post-discharge self-harm.