You Suspect a Client Is Suicidal

question 21

Essay

You suspect a client is suicidal. What strategy you must employ to gauge their level of lethality?

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Definitions:

Significance Level

A statistic representing the probability of committing a Type I error, typically denoted by alpha (α), indicating how likely it is to find a result as extreme as, or more so, if the null hypothesis is true.

P < .05

A statistical notation indicating that the probability of the observed results occurring by chance is less than 5%.

Effect Size

A quantitative measure of the strength of a phenomenon, often used to determine the practical significance of research findings.

Cohen

Refers to statistical measures developed by Jacob Cohen to quantify the effect size or the strength of an observed phenomenon, such as Cohen's d.