Resources Library

Developing and Assessing a Training Program in Prehospital Care of Behavioral Emergencies

Psychotherapy of the Suicidal Patient

And Certain Thoughts go Through my Head

In order to preventive measures, a nurse first must not only hear what the patient is saying, but also believe him.

Suicide: Self-Help Groups

Gatekeepers: Meeting Needs of Suicide Survivors

Books to Help Children Understand Death

Anorexia Nervosa: An Overview

Anorexia Nervosa: A View From the Mirror

Excerpts from the author’s adolescent diary & her reflections as an adult on her struggle to come to terms with her eating disorder. Refutes the correlation between anorexia & the wish to die & explores her subjective need for an increased sense of self.

Depressive Phenomenology and Levels of Cerebrospinal Fluid Endorphins

This paper examines the possibility that disease states characterized by dysphoria or euphoria are accompanied by endorphin dysfunction. The effect of the opiate antagonist naloxone was studied in 5 clinically depressed patients. Results are described. (20 ref)

Guidelines for Funeral Directors in Dealing With Survivors of Suicide

Social Networks and the Mental Health Caregiving System: Implications for Psychiatric Nursing Practice

The Computers are Coming

This editorial describes the availability of data information systems currently accessible by computer for the mental health community. CI

Recognizing the Suicidal Overdose

This study reports on the accuracy with which the level of antecedent suicidal intent can be measured & the level of subsequent suicidal risk predicted, using in both cases a small number of easily & reliably-obtained variables. These variables were age, sex, living arrangements & reported motive. Such measurements will, it is hoped, be useful […]

Integration or Disintegration in the Mental Health Services

Alcohol Level and Home Accidents

Teenagers Taking own Lives

The Mental Health of the Older Executive

The Impact of Patients With Chronic Character Pathology on a Hospital Inpatient Unit

Attitudes of and Towards the Dying

Recent Trends in Suicide

Regional Variations in Mortality From Suicide

Multiple-Versus Single-Index Predictors of Dangerousness, Suicide, and Other Rare Behaviors

The principle that prediction of low base-rate events based on test signs may be grossly in error in the direction of overprediction is argued to be limited to situations where single-index predictors are used. An example is presented of a three-variable Boolean function which accurately distinguishes 70% of true positive instances and 100% of true […]

Concurrent Validity of Templer and Templer/McMordie Death Anxiety Scales

Two death-anxiety measures were differentially sensitive to the scenarios for 24 male and 38 female undergraduates. The original Templer scale may be as satisfactory as the Templer/McMordie scale.