Resource Tag: UNITED STATES. CONNECTICUT

This presentation outlines the formation of the Youth Crisis Network (YCN), an alliance of human service agencies & school systems, located in northwestern Connecticut. The YCN provides system networking, coordination, collaboration, & advocacy aimed at developing quality services for youth at risk for suicide & youth in crisis. The Network was initially organized around an […]

This presentation reported on a follow-up study of 25 dischargees (1/6th of the original sample). Instruments of measurement & data analysis are discussed. Using non-parametric statistics with less power than parametric statistics, the authors found histories of less frequent suicidal behavior at follow-up than at admission among the youths discharged from 1 to 4 years […]

This article describes the management of 2 patients in a short-term crisis intervention service in a general hospital. Both patients had threatened suicide, were ambivalent about psychiatric hospitalization, & were noncompliant & manipulative. These cases were selected because they are representative of a subset of patients who historically do not do well in a regular […]

The activities of a Connecticut Task Force for youth suicide prevention are described. Data on suicide attempts/completions was studied. 5 areas of emphasis are given: awareness, primary prevention, services for at-risk youth & high risk youth, and postvention. Schools were surveyed, in which few had formal suicide programs. Recommendations for Connecticut (e.g. increase public awareness) […]

This article describes the suicide of Connecticut’s senate representative, Audrey Beck.

Recommends a youth suicide advisory council; increased public awareness of youth suicide; a statewide, system-wide training capacity to prevent & intervene in youth suicide; increased funding for primary prevention programs; a statewide capacity to identify & intervene with at risk youth; community access to comprehensive crisis intervention & treatment services; establishing postvention procedures at school […]

The authors present the findings from a 7 year follow-up study of suicidal ideation, plans, & attempts among the general population of a New Haven community originally surveyed by Myers in 1967. A total of 515 subjects were interviewed. Results indicated 14% of this population experienced suicidal ideation; attempt rates were higher than those reported […]

A comparison of in & outpatient hospital admissions for suicide attempts in the urban community of North Haven (1955-70) revealed an 11 fold increase in attempts. Epidemiologic & demographic factors are examined. A review of studies from Great Britain, Australia & Israel revealed similar findings as to the increase in attempts over the past decade […]

A Connecticut area comprising 6 small towns & a city of 14 000 was studied as to their suicidal & other violent death rates over the period 1960-79. As there was a 458% increase in the number of practising psychotherapists & an 82% increase in primary physicians in this period, correlations were made to determine […]

Identified 5 cases where there was independent agreement between the expert’s standards & the treating resident psychiatrists that hospitalization was required, but the patients refused. They had made repeated attempts, used lethal means & were suicidal upon referral. The psychiatrists reported feeling confused, anxious & annoyed in dealing with them. Indicates discussions of social control […]

Life events experienced in the 6 months before a suicide attempt were compared with events for 2 matched control groups. Suicide attempters reported 4 times as many events as were reported by subjects from the general population & 1 and 1/2times as many as were reported by depressed patients prior to depressive onset. A substantial […]

Attention is directed to an apparently high-risk of attempted or threatened suicide in a cohort of young women who were pregnant before age 18. Factors related to suicide attempts are discussed and stress is placed on the need for preventive action, including early detection and intensive treatment of long duration for suicide-prone girls and for […]

The authors describe an effort to develop criteria for utilization review of treatment for suicide attempters. Explicit criteria proposed by a panel of experts as essential determinants for hospitalization of these patients were compared with actual clinical practice. According to the expert’s criteria, over 1/2 of the outpatient sample should have been hospitalized, however, multiple […]

Criteria proposed by a panel as essential factors for hospitalization were compared with actual clinical practice. According to the experts’ criteria, over 1/2 of the outpatient sample should have been hospitalized. After analysis was done on the criteria, however, 4 predictors showed that only 20% of the outpatients should have been hospitalized. The authors discuss […]

In this study 97 out of 148 Protestant females completed suicide compared to 37 women and 18 men who were Catholic. The rate for suicides in the general population was the same as the Catholics studied.(DD)

720 subjects from a general population survey were interviewed as to occurrence of 5 degrees of suicidal feelings. 8.9% reported them in the past year. Results include: in 3.5% maximum intensity consisted of feelings that life was not worthwhile; 2.8% reached the point of wishing themselves dead, etc. Those who had suicidal feelings reported more […]