Resource Tag: THREATENED SUICIDE

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A case-control study was conducted to investigate the relevance of criminal history, psychiatric morbidity, & social integration to suicide in Austrian prisons. Of 250 recorded suicides, 220 personal files were available & matched to 440 controls. The most important predictors for suicide in custody were a history of suicidality, psychiatric diagnosis, psychotropic medication, a highly […]

Background, psychopathology, & treatment-related factors were examined among suicidal adolescent outpatients with adjustment disorders. Data on 302 consecutively referred psychiatric outpatients, aged 12-22 years, were collected. Of the patients, 89 received a diagnosis of adjustment disorder, 25% showed suicide attempts, suicidal threats or ideation. Compared with non-suicidal adjustment disorder patients, suicidal patients were characterized by […]

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In this article, the authors build on previous discussions of the possible role of shame & guilt in sexual offending. They review the general psychological literature & conclude that the distinction between internal & external shame is an important one in considering sexual offenders. The effects of shame & guilt on victim empathy & relapse […]

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In order to test the validity of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC), a 48-item measure of a child’s overall mental health, the convergent, divergent, & criterion validity of the SAC was assessed with data gathered on 188 children in 2 urban child welfare & juvenile justice systems. Data regarding suicide ideation & attempts among […]

To see if trait anxiety & suicidality interfered with the ability to respond to suicidal crisis calls, 279 undergraduates completed measures of trait anxiety & suicidality in the past week & the revised Suicide Intervention Response Inventory (SIRI-2). Unexpectedly, trait anxiety (but not suicidality) correlated with better SIRI-2 scores. In addition, students scored significantly more […]

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

This study investigated perceived academic performance & self-reported suicidal behaviour in adolescents, mean age 13 years, from 27 South Australian high schools. The authors found that groups perceiving their academic performance as failing, below average, average & above average were significantly different on a variety of measures. Multivariate logistic regression analyses revealed that failing academic […]