Psychological tests miss suicide risk

By Deborah Cornwall
Updated December 8 2021 - 3:41am, first published 3:31am
The veterans royal commission has been told psychological tests often fail to detect suicide risk.
The veterans royal commission has been told psychological tests often fail to detect suicide risk.

Standard psychological tests used to identify people at high risk of suicide missed the vast majority of people who would go on to kill themselves, the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide has heard.

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