What Is a Psychological Autopsy

question 86

Multiple Choice

What is a psychological autopsy?

• A) a medical chart review that is undertaken after someone has died, to determine what psychological disorders they had.
• B) a detailed investigation of the state of mind of a person at the time they died.
• C) A research method used after someone dies by suicide that involves detailed interviews with people in the life of the person who has died, and with their health care providers.
• D) There is no such thing as a psychological autopsy.
• E) An investigation of psychological factors that may have contributed to death from a physical disease.

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