Why Suicide?
Victoria Kendrick, Lori Holleran, David Hart, Dana Lockwood, Tracy Vargo, and Bruce Bongar
in Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
In today’s culture, suicide is predominantly viewed with a negative outlook, specifically, that suicidal behavior is a symptom of emotional disturbance or mental illness. However, ...
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Driving Themselves to Death: Covert and Subintentioned Suicide among Veterans
Glenn Sullivan, Phillip C. Kroke, and Timothy B. Hostler
in Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
Suicide by means of a motor vehicle is more common than is generally realized. Vehicular suicide accounts for approximately 1% of all completed suicides in the United States. ...
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The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program: Efforts to Address Risks Associated with Suicide and Suicide-Related Behaviors
Susan P. Limber, Jane Riese, Marlene J. Snyder, and Dan Olweus
in Youth Suicide and Bullying: Challenges and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Research indicates that bullying is one factor among a complex interaction of numerous relationship, mental health, and school stressors that may contribute to suicidal thoughts and ...
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Letter to The Lancet: Leucotomy in Psychosomatic Disorders
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 3, 1946-1951
In this letter to The Lancet, Winnicott contends that no scientific psychiatric group will allow the ethics of leucotomy as a matter for scientific discussion. Winnicott defends the belief ...
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Social-Psychological Model of Adolescent Suicide
Christopher D. Corona, David A. Jobes, and Alan L. Berman
in Youth Suicide and Bullying: Challenges and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Little is known about transgender adolescents in need of particular support. Previous research has noted elevated rates of suicidal ideation and peer victimization among transgender ...
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Bullying, Rejection, and Isolation: Lessons Learned from Classroom Peer Ecology Studies
Handrea Anita Logis and Philip C. Rodkin
in Youth Suicide and Bullying: Challenges and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Bullying conveys a strong message of rejection, which can thwart youths’ sense of belongingness and self-efficacy, putting them at risk of forming suicidal thoughts and behaviors, ...
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The LET’s CONNECT Intervention: Targeting Social Connectedness, Bullying, and Youth Suicide Risk
Cheryl A. King, Polly Y. Gipson, and Kiel Opperman
in Youth Suicide and Bullying: Challenges and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth between the ages of 10 and 18, and suicidal behavior is far too prevalent. Many suicide prevention strategies have focused on ...
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Suicide in the Military
M. David Rudd
in Military Psychologists' Desk Reference
Suicide in the military has received considerable attention since the Global War on Terror was launched, with rates increasing across all branches of the service and more than doubling ...
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Epilogue
Eli Robins M.D.
in The Final Months: A Study of the Lives of 134 Persons Who Committed Suicide
This chapter presents a conclusion to the study. It returns to the questions that the study intended to answer and summarises the findings of the study by answering each of these questions ...
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Preventive Interventions and Treatments for Suicidal Youth
Jill Harkavy-Friedman and Herbert Hendin
in Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2 ed.)
The last category of adolescent suicide prevention efforts focuses on indicated interventions and treatments that target those who have already shown signs of suicidal ideation and ...
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Before Suicide
Eli Robins M.D.
in The Final Months: A Study of the Lives of 134 Persons Who Committed Suicide
This chapter explores the differences in planning of outcome by those who attempt and those who complete suicide. It first considers similar studies into this topic, before discussing the ...
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Suicide Risk Assessment with Combat Veterans—Part II: Assessment and Management
Phillip M. Kleespies, Abby Adler, and Christopher G. AhnAllen
in Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
The evidence for combat experience per se as a risk factor for suicide is reviewed in this chapter. The chapter discusses assessing the risk of suicide with combat veterans with a ...
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The Problem of Suicide in the United States Special Operations Forces
Bruce Bongar, Kate Maslowski, Catherine Hausman, Danielle Spangler, and Tracy Vargo
in Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
Since 1986, the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has been employed by the military for carrying out a range of challenging tasks key to counterterrorism efforts. These Special ...
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Managing Suicide in the Older Veteran
Bavna B. Vyas, Lisa M. Brown, David Dosa, and Diane L. Elmore
in Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
Suicide among older adults and Veterans is increasingly recognized as a serious and rapidly growing public health problem. Older adults (age >65 per medicare), are more likely to die by ...
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Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Suicidal Military Personnel and Veterans
W. Brad Johnson and Gerald P. Koocher
in Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
This chapter reviews the key ethical issues involved in treating active duty military personnel and military veterans who present with suicidal ideation. The primary issue is striving to ...
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Caring Letters for Military Suicide Prevention
David D. Luxton
in Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
The caring letters concept is a suicide intervention that involves the routine sending of the brief expressions of care to high-risk patients following hospitalization or emergency ...
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Suicide in the Army National Guard: Findings, Interpretations, and Implications for Prevention
James Griffith
in Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
The Army National Guard (ARNG) has increasingly become an important part of US national defense and at times, during the recent Iraq and Afghanistan wars, comprised from 30% to 40% of the ...
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Childhood Psychosis
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 3, 1946-1951
In this essay, Winnicott emphasises that, in the study of a psychotic child, paediatrics and psychology tend to part company and that it is only by comparing the emotional development of ...
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Design of Interview Schedule to Determine the Prevalence of Symptoms Compared in the Four Major Diagnostic Groups
Eli Robins M.D.
in The Final Months: A Study of the Lives of 134 Persons Who Committed Suicide
This chapter describes the design of the interview schedule used in the study on suicides to determine the prevalence of symptoms, and explores the frequency with which individual symptoms ...
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Bullying as a Sociocultural Pathway to Suicide
Joyce Chu, Johnson Ma, Bruce Bongar, and Peter Goldblum
in Youth Suicide and Bullying: Challenges and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Some research and theoretical work suggest that suicide can be a socially and culturally driven phenomenon. We present sociocultural explanations for suicidal behaviors among youth, along ...
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