Treatment of Suicidal Patients Introduction This project r

Problem Assessment & Action Prescription

To determine if a therapist is treating suicidal patients properly, problem factors must first be analyzed and then the therapist must demonstrate knowledge and application of this information (action prescription). Accurate assessment requires continuous awareness of the problems relevant to suicide as well as the assessment of the level of suicide risk for all clients involved (Gilliland & James, 1997).

Statistics from several countries suggest that the problem of inpatient suicides is increasing. Reasons for these increases may include changes from custodial ward environment to more liberal regimes, shorter admission duration, multiple readmissions, and inadequate care. Overall suicide incidence is also increasing. The highest age group for many years has been men over 35 years (Caucasian), however in the United States the suicide rates among teenagers and young black males has risen dramatically over the past 30 to 35 years (Gilliland & James, 1997; & Lloyd, 1995).

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bilization resulting from loss, abuse, violence, or sexual abuse; anniversary of traumatic loss; psychosis; substance abuse history; history of unsuccessful medical treatment; isolation; depression; prized possessions are given away or affairs are put in order; radical shifts in behavior or mood are noted; feelings of hopelessness or helplessness are pervasive; preoccupation with earlier episodes of pain are found; and/or profound degree of emotions such as anger, aggression, loneliness, guilt, grief, or disappointment are noted (Gilliland & James, 1997). People who commit suicide demonstrate common characteristics that are situational, conative, affective, cognitive, relational, and serial. Situational characteristics include a common stimulus of unendurable psychological pain with a common stressor of frustrated psychological needs. Conative characteristics include the common purpose of seeking solution and the cessation of consciousness. Affective characteristics include the common emotion of hopelessness and helplessness with an internal attitude toward ambivalence. Cognitive characteristics include the common cognitive state of constriction. Relational characteristics include the common interpersonal act of communicati
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