Resource Tag: BECK'S DIATHESIS-STRESS THEORY OF DEPRESSION

The author provides a history of theoretical approaches to explaining suicide, beginning with the seminal theories of Freud & Durkheim, & then turning to more recent theories developed by suicidologists in order to account for individual suicides as well as the suicide rates within a society. (14 refs)

A model of suicidality based in cognitive therapy is offered. The conceptual framework, referred to as the suicidal mode, incorporates the various systems of personality into an integrative theory with direct application for clinical care. Application of the suicidal mode to treatment of patients struggling with suicidality is discussed & broader issues of theoretical integration […]

Using a behavioural high-risk two-site prospective design, the cognitive vulnerability hypotheses about suicidality were tested. Consistent with prediction, the high cognitive risk participants were more likely than the low cognitive risk participants to exhibit suicidality, measured by both structured diagnostic interview & questionnaire self-reort, during the 2.5 year prospective follow-up period. Moreover, when the prospective […]

The suicide of Sylvia Plath is examined from the perspectives of 15 theories of suicidal behaviour including: Adler, Beck, Binswanger, Freud, Henry & Short, Jung, Kelly, Leenaars, Lester, Maris, Menninger, Murray, Shneidman, Sullivan, & Zilboorg. Plath’s suicide is found to fit best with psychoanalytic & cognitive theories of suicide, in particular those of Aaron Beck, […]