There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Beverly Sills There is a significant body of literature which indicates that people whose mental health problems lead them to require psychiatric hospitalization are at a significantly increased risk for suicide (Appleby et al., 1999; Pirkola, Sohlman, & Wahlbeck, 2005; Troister, Links, & Cutcliffe, 2008). However, hospitalization for people at risk of suicide is only ‘part of the bigger picture’; the period of time immediately following discharge after such hospitalizations, perhaps rather counterintuitively, 1 appears to be a particularly high risk time (see Geddes & Juszczak, 1995; Geddes, Juszczak, O’Brien, & Kendrick, 1997; Goldacre, Seagrott, & Hawton, 1993; Ho, 2003; Lawrence, et al., 2001; Troister et al., 2008; Yim et al., 2004). Findings from studies conducted in various parts of the world have highlighted a number of variables which have been shown to be significantly related to suicide after recent discharge such as: previous suicide attempts (Fernando & Storm, 1984; King et al., 2001a; 2001b; King, Baldwin, Sinclair, & Campbell, 2001b; McKenzie & Wurr, 2001; Yim et al., 2004); presence of affective disorder/depressive symptoms, (King, Segal, Kaminski, & Naylor, 1995), unplanned discharge (King et al., 2001a, 2001b), and experience of negative life events following discharge (Pokorny & Kaplan, 1976). Conflicting findings exist regarding the link between duration of hospitalization and increased risk (Qin & Nordentoft, 2005; Ho, 2006).