Psychological Model for Understanding and Evaluating Potentially Suicidal African-Americans at the City of Memphis Hospital

This presentation described a psychological model that the author has used for understanding & evaluating potentially suicidal African-Americans in a Memphis hospital. Individuals are seen as being impinged upon by long-term & short-term stressors which threaten their equilibrium. A list is provided of 10 presenting problems & symptoms in the seriously suicidal African-American patient seen in this hospital’s emergency room. These are in addition to the more usual serious indicators of suicide.