Resource Tag: PSYCHOLOGISTS

The average professional psychologist in their career has a greater than 20 per cent chance of losing their patient to suicide (Bersoff, 1999). However, while training courses and books cover the risk of suicide, very little has been written on a counselling psychologists reactions and coping styles when it actually happens. This paper describes my […]

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For the original article by T Pytell, please see SIEC #2004-0808

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Published in “Back to the Future: Refocusing the Image of Suicide,” ed. by J L McIntosh

In this article, the author provides a case scenario concerning the counseling of a client whose family member is planning suicide, followed by a discussion of pertinent legal & ethical issues. (25 refs)

For commentary on this article by K Biller, J I Levinson, & T Pytell, please see SIEC #2005-0331

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A practical & easy-to-use model is proposed for psychologists to integrate the growing knowledge about suicide into their practice to guide their suicide risk assessments & clinical decision making. This model is based on known risk factors for suicide that are categorized as historical, personal, psychosocial-environmental, & clinical, & are dichotomized into acute & chronic […]

For a related article, please see SIEC #2004-0747. For reactions to this article, please see SIEC #2004-0748 to 2004-0750

For a related article, please see SIEC #2004-0746. For reactions to this article, please see SIEC #2004-0748 to 2004-0750

For the original articles by J Werth & D Holdwick, & by J Westefeld et al, please see SIEC #2004-0747 & #2004-0747. For other reactions, see SIEC #2004-0749 & #2004-0750

For the original articles by J Westefeld et al, & Werth & Holdwick, please see SIEC #2004-0746 & #2004-0747. For related reactions, see SIEC #2004-0748 & #2004-0749

This prospective follow-up study monitored the evolution of psychologists’ conceptions of suicide prevention over the course of their participation in psychological autopsy studies that constituted the first phase of the National Suicide Prevention Program in Finland. Another purpose of the study was to consider the feasibility of an earlier suicide prevention model. Findings concerning psychologists’ […]

The assessment of risk for suicide in patients with major depression is a difficult task for professional psychologists. Not only is prediction itself a nearly impossible feat, but the literature is full of risk factors to which one should attend. By combining clinical & empirical literature of major depression-specific risk factors with the reported behaviors […]

This article conceptualizes what a “behavioral emergency” is, gives recommendations for containing the emergency client’s emotional turmoil, & sets forth an evidence-based approach, using diagnosis-specific risk factors, for improving the clinician’s ability to estimate suicide risk. Recommendations are also given for appropriate responses to the patient or client on the basis of the level of […]

Presents the results of an anonymous questionnaire administered to 428 Oregon psychologists for the purpose of answering the question: How do Oregon psychologists view physician-assisted suicide and their role in the process of assessing patients who request such assistance, and do personal attitudes influence professional viewpoints? This study suggest that psychologists’ attitudes towards legalization of […]

The authors compared beginning & advanced psychology graduate students & practicing psychologists to nursing graduate students. A total of 139 participants in these 4 groups read a vignette about Pat, who had either contemplated suicide or never contemplated suicide, then completed questions about how they would respond to a telephone call from Pat, how suicidal […]