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A 71-year-old woman who migrated from Hong Kong 40 years ago is admitted to a psychiatric ward with a severe depressive episode. She speaks Cantonese and almost no English. Through the duty interpreter she has told you she has been thinking of ending her life, and she has asked that her family are not told this. She is profoundly deaf in the left ear and cannot follow speech on a telephone. Her son speaks fluent English, her daughter-in-law is an accredited interpreter, and a ward nurse speaks Mandarin. Which one of the following should be used for tomorrow's assessment?
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