Explaining Suicide: Patterns, Motivations, and What Notes Reveal

Explaining Suicide: Patterns, Motivations, and What Notes Reveal discusses top motivations for suicide, how they differ between note leavers and non-note leavers, and how we can use the information to create better prevention tactics. As 15% to 40% of suicides leave suicide notes, a valuable clue to help unlock the motivation of the suicidal person, they are an integral tool for study. This book represents the first large scale analysis (1200+ subjects) of motivations for suicide across multiple ages in the same time period, 13% of whom left notes. Analyzes data from 1200+ suicides from a single year in one coroner's officeIdentifies the top motivations for suicide that are based on suicide notesDiscusses the extent to which suicides are impulsive vs. plannedLeads to a better understanding on how to prevent suicide/treat the suicidal INDICE: 1. Intro 2. Overall Findings 3. Suicides Motivated by Relationship Problems 4. Suicides Motivated by a Need to Escape Pain 5. Suicides Motivated by Failure or Death/Bereavement 6. Less Prevalent Motivations for Suicide 7. Developmental Perspectives on Suicide 8. Severe Mental Illness and Suicide 9. The Intersection of Suicide, Law and Mental Health 10. Conclusions and Implications

• ISBN: 978-0-12-809289-7
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 284
• Fecha Publicación: 17/01/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés