Linda Mintle, Ph.D.
Suicide is a complex issue with multiple contributing genetic and environmental factors. Mental illness is a key factor in identifying someone as having a predisposition for suicide. There are risk factors surrounding suicide, such as gender, age, race/ethnicity, marital status, geography, professions/occupations, economics, time of year, illness, and others. Methods are discussed, along with common triggers and general warning signs. Protective factors and prevention strategies are important in dealing with people in suicidal crisis.
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The Digital World, Sociology and Suic...
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The Ethics of Suicide Intervention
Miriam Parent, Ph.D.
Working with people in suicidal crisis is a very stressful and ethically complicated scenario. The ethical principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, justice, fidelity, and veracity are important when dealing with clients in regard to suicide. It is important to n... -
Suicide Prevention and Intervention w...
Joshua Straub, Ph.D.
Suicidal behaviors, suicidal ideation, and non-suicidal self-mutilating behaviors (SMB) are issues surrounding today’s adolescents. Today’s youth may engage in SMB to stop bad feelings, feel something (even if it is pain), punish themselves, relieve feelings of numbness or ...
