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Ritter, Domink. "The art of suicide : the pain in paintings." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/2804.
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This research projects deals with the question of whether the paintings of artists who have committed suicide is reflective of their mental states both in terms of content and form. It specifically attempts to answer whether the deterioration in mental state from a time of better mental health to the time of their suicide is expressed graphically in the paintings of those artists and whether this can be reliably observed. It was discovered that paintings in the absence of contact with or interpretation by the artists, provided enough information to enable non-expert judges to make reliable global content-related judgements (e.g. destructiveness and hopelessness) as well as form-specific ratings (e.g. lack of detail) that distinguished between paintings created near the time of artists’ suicides and their paintings created at a time of better mental health as well as paintings from artists who were suffering from depression. It was also found that non-expert judges were able to correctly identify paintings that were created just before artists’ suicides as reflecting serious mental health problems. Furthermore, it was discovered that there was a general preference for paintings from depressed artists over the last paintings by artists who have taken their own lives. The implications of these findings for clinical work both in terms of assessment and treatment were discussed. Furthermore, several limitations of this research project were noted and suggestions for future research were provided.
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Chapman, Paul. "The merging of fact & fiction binaries within suicide this exegesis is submitted to Auckland University of Technology for the degree of MA (Art and Design)." Click here to access this resource online, 2007. http://repositoryaut.lconz.ac.nz/theses/1346/.
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Gentry, Deborah Suiter. "The art of dying : suicide in the works of Kate Chopin and Sylvia Plath /." New York [u.a.] : Lang, 2007. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0618/2006025137.html.
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Senguttuvan, Vinoad. "Shutters." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/290.
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Shutters is a fragmented novel that employs various prose and poetic elements to document the life and endeavors of photographer-writer Ishi in present day New York City. The work follows his quest for emotional and physical connection, and his artistic project where he photographs and writes about suicide survivors. The work explores the observer-observed divide that often manifests in fiction and addresses the themes of physical beauty, art, death and the human condition.
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Tang, Leung-ying June, and 鄧亮瀅. ""Dying is an art, like everything else": the theme of suicide in Sylvia Plath's life and works." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31953712.
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Tang, Leung-ying June. ""Dying is an art, like everything else" : the theme of suicide in Sylvia Plath's life and works /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25335078.
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Davis, Rachel Andrea. "If I forget you, it doesn't mean I didn't love you." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1501461061076469.
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Friberg, von Sydow Rikard. "Att ta skriken på allvar : Etiska perspektiv på självdestruktivt beteende." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Etik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-160566.
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This dissertation has multiple goals. First to analyze self-destructive behavior and its relations to ethics. Secondly to evaluate four different ethical perspectives regarding self-destructiveness from a certain position of human nature. The third goal is to construct a position that deals with self-destructive behavior in a way that is improved and well-managed compared to the four ethical perspectives analyzed earlier. The first goal is met by comparing and evaluating different theories concerning self-destructive behavior and discussing the ethical implications surrounding them. Self-destructive behavior is seen as a way of communicating, which puts a moral pressure on both the self-destructive person and the society around her. The four ethical perspectives represented by Robert Nozick and Thomas Szasz, two neoliberals, James B Nelson, a body theologian inspired by Paul Tillich, Gail Weiss, a body feminist and Mary Timothy Prokes, a catholic body theologian, are hence met by the problem of self-destruct, analyzed and critically evaluated. In the final chapter the author constructs an improved ethical perspective concerned with self-destructiveness, based on altruism, responsibility and broad-mindedness.
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Caissy, Sandra. "La Suicidée : quand la transdisciplinarité devient un récit tragique." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25416.
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Tableau d'honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdorales, 2014-2015La Suicidée est un projet d'exposition transdisciplinaire en arts visuels conçu à partir d'installations multi-, pluri- et inter-disciplinaires cherchant à générer du sens et de la signification par la mise en espace d'un récit tragique mettant en scène ma propre image au cœur de la représentation de l'idée de mort volontaire. Ces installations sont disposées dans un ordre logique de séquences de façon à suggérer qu'il existe des étapes dans le processus menant à l'idée de mort volontaire. En cherchant à tendre vers une meilleure compréhension du phénomène du suicide, je choisis d'utiliser comme matière première mon propre vécu avec la mise en place d'une multiplicité de points de vue. C'est dans un contexte d'auto-observation de mes propres pensées et de mes états d'âme douloureux causés par des symptômes dus à un syndrome de stress post-traumatique polytraumatique que j'ai utilisé l'art comme lieu d'amplification de la réalité pour la transformer en une histoire tragique inventée. C'est alors par le dessin, l'écriture, la vidéo, le son, la peinture, la sculpture, la photographie et la danse que je choisis de mettre en relation le désir de mort et le désir de vie. Ces autoportraits seront jumelés à la lenteur, à l'aspect fantomatique, à la beauté de la nature, à la violence des mots et aux sonorités dramatiques pour imager la détérioration de l'âme.
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Thomas, Kathryn Ann, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Longitudinal evaluation of a risk-factor model for adolescent suicidality." Deakin University. School of Psychology, 2004. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051208.100703.
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This research developed two best-fitting structural equation models of risk factors for adolescent depression and suicidality: a core model, which included parenting factors, gender, depression, and suicidality, and an extended model, which also encompassed personality traits (Introversion and Impulsivity) and mood factors (Anxiety and Anger). Further, this research investigated the consistency of model fit across time (Le., 1 month & 12 months) and samples, and explored the effectiveness of the ReachOut! Internet site as a psychoeducational prevention strategy for adolescent depression and suicidality. Gender, age, and location differences were also explored.
Participants were 185 Year-9 students and 93 Year-10 students aged 14 - 16 years, from seven secondary schools in regional and rural Victoria. Students were given a survey which included the Parental Bonding Instrument (Parker, Tupling, & Brown, 1979), the Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory (Millon, Green, & Meagher, 1982), the Profile of Mood States Inventory (McNair & Lorr, 1964), items on suicidal behaviour including some questions from the Revised Adolescent Suicide Questionnaire (Pearce & Martin, 1994), and questions on loss and general demographics.
Results supported an indirect model of risk factors, with family factors directly influencing personality factors, which in turn influenced mood factors, including depression, which then influenced suicidality. At the theoretical level, results supported Attachment Theory (Bowlby, 1969), demonstrating that perceived parenting styles that are warm and not overly controlling are more conducive to an adolescent's emotional well-being than are parenting styles that are cold and controlling. Further, results supported Millon's theory of personality (1981), demonstrating that parenting style influences a child's personality.
Short-term intervention effects from the internet site were a decrease in Introversion for the full sample, and decreased Inhibition and Suicidality for a high-risk subgroup. Long-term age effects were decreased Inhibition and increased Anxiety for the fall sample. There was also a probable intervention effect for Depression for the high-risk subgroup. No location differences for the risk factors were found between regional and rural areas.
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Lafran, Anne. "Entre ciel et terre : exègèse, symbolique et représentations de la pendaison de Judas Iscariote au Moyen-Age (XIIe-XIVe siècles)." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA040228.
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Épisode anecdotique du Nouveau Testament, la pendaison de Judas s’est imposée dans la tradition patristique comme un thème récurent. Au Moyen Âge, le suicide est condamné comme péché par l’Église et comme crime par les pouvoirs civils ; il est un tabou, qui n’a pas encore de nom. Le suicide de Judas, au contraire, parce qu’il est symbolique et exemplaire, est commenté, interprété et représenté. Il témoigne de l’hostilité généralisée des mentalités médiévales face à la mort volontaire, la « male mort », mais aussi de la stigmatisation de ceux qui se sont désolidarisés du corps social et des valeurs chrétiennes et qui sont voués à la même mort que Judas, perçue non plus comme suicide mais comme châtiment. Cette étude se propose d’explorer les représentations, les interprétations du suicide de Judas et leur déclinaison et de montrer comment ce thème sert, au-delà de la condamnation du suicide, l’effort de normalisation de la société, la construction des pouvoirs civils, la montée de l’antisémitisme, tout en témoignant aussi d’une meilleure connaissance de l’intériorité, caractéristique de l’Humanisme médiévalJudas’ hanging, anecdotal episode from the New Testament, asserted itself as a recurrent topic in patristic tradition. During the Middle Age, suicide is reproved as a sin by the Church and as a crime by civil authorities ; it is a yet nameless taboo. On the contrary, Judas’ suicide, because it is symbolic and exemplary, is annotated, interpreted and pictured. It shows general hostility from medieval mentalities towards self-willed death, the “male mort”, as well as stigmatization of those who have dissociated from social entity and Christian moral values and who are doomed to the same death as Judas, not anymore considered a suicide but a punishment. The present study has in view to explore Judas’ suicide pictures, interpretations and their declensions and to point out how this topic serves, beyond suicide’s condemnation, the society normalisation effort, the civil authorities’ construction, the anti-Semitism rising, while showing a better knowledge of interiority, characteristic of medieval Humanism
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Jones, Ian F. "Social factors in adolescent suicidal ideation and behavior." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332529/.
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The decision by teenagers either to consider or to attempt to commit suicide was addressed in this research. Covariance structure analysis (LISREL) techniques were used to examine the influence of four social-psychological factors (psychic disruption, delinquency, family disruption, and school problems) upon a suicidal orientation.
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Leonhardt, Heather. "Demographic and Psychological Predictors of Suicide Attempts and Ideation Among Adolescents." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501050/.
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The present study attempted to identify demographic and psychological variables predictive of adolescent suicidal ideations and attempts. Data from 90 adolescents, who completed an intake form at a university community mental health clinic or were student volunteers, were utilized. Two judges tabulated information regarding age, gender, number of siblings, ethnicity, parental marital status, drug use, depression, suicidal ideation, and previous suicidal attempts. A multiple regression analysis was performed to identify which variables had predictive significance. Depression was the best predictor of both suicidal ideations and attempts. Ethnicity was also predictive; white adolescents were found to be at higher risk for suicide than individuals from other ethnic groups. It is suggested that additional studies be done exploring other predictors of suicide among adolescents.
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Moore, Sheila. "The decriminalisation of suicide." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2000. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1573/.
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This thesis examines the passage of the Act which decriminalised suicide in England and Wales in 1961. Although often listed with other reforms of the period under the label "permissive", empirical evidence reveals this to be a serious misreading of what the Suicide Act was actually designed to accomplish. This thesis argues that, far from the decriminalisation being a relinquishing of state control over a deviant behaviour, the Suicide Act - which was a government, not a Private Member's Bill - stands as an unusually explicit example of a transfer of responsibility for control of a deviant behaviour from criminal justice to medical jurisdiction in the interests of establishing more effective control. Further, the thesis argues that the passage was only possible because of a unique and short-lived conjunction of structure and agency. The long positivist trend towards re-defining deviancy as a medical, not a moral, matter was at its peak in the late 1950s, at a time when the upheavals of war and unprecedented affluence had created a climate conducive to social change. However these conditions, while necessary, were not sufficient to effect the passage of the Act. Suicide law reform was not a matter of popular concern and the profound moral and religious implications of suicide itself made it the kind of sensitive subject governments generally leave to private members. Drawing on cabinet and government papers now available, and on interviews with key participants in the passage of the Act, this thesis seeks to demonstrate that suicide would not have been decriminalised without the actions of three very specific human agents, and at the same time to show how these actions were shaped by, and their success dependent upon, structural elements that both constrained and guided them.
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SIMONSEN, MARIA EDUARDA SANTOS PEREIRA. "ADOLESCENCE AND SUICIDE: A JOURNEY IN ACT." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=26577@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
A partir da constatação clínica de que muitos jovens estão hoje passando ao ato, a presente pesquisa de Mestrado explora, através da perspectiva psicanalítica, a relação entre a adolescência e a sociedade contemporânea. Partimos de uma análise de nossa sociedade comparando-a com as sociedades tradicionais para, posteriormente, buscarmos compreender como se dá a constituição psíquica na adolescência. Constatou-se que, atualmente, sem os ritos de passagem, muitos adolescentes podem se encontrar desamparados, o que abre caminho para defesas precárias como a passagem ao ato. Os cortes e o suicídio recebem especial destaque na pesquisa. A partir de casos divulgados recentemente pela mídia, onde adolescentes que sofreram bullying cometeram suicídio, foi possível articular o cenário social atual e o aumento de sofrimento psíquico entre os jovens que passam ao ato.
From clinical observation that many young people today are passing to the act, this Master s research examines, through the psychoanalytic perspective, the relationship between adolescence and contemporary society. Starting from the analysis of our society compared to traditional ones, we could understand how is the psychic constitution in adolescence. It was found that, nowadays, without the rites of passage, many young people may feel helpless, paving the way for poor defenses as the passage to the act. Cuts and suicide are given special emphasis in the research. From recent facts reported by the media, where teenagers who suffered bullying committed suicide, it was possible to articulate the current social cenário with the increase of psychological distress among young people passing to the act.
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Edwards, Stephen J. "No-suicide contracts, no-suicide agreements and no-suicide assurances : an exploratory study of their nature, utilization and perceived effectiveness." University of Western Australia. Social Work and Social Policy Discipline Group, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0149.
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The research examined mental health practitioners' attitudes towards, satisfaction with and use of suicide prevention contracting (SPC) techniques. Survey respondents comprised consultant psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, mental health nurses, psychologists, registered medical officers and social workers. A self-report questionnaire was mailed to 1347 potential respondents, together with three follow-up letters sent out at two-week intervals. There was a 31% response rate, producing 420 valid questionnaires. The results of the research re-confirm the historical trajectory of SPC, from its early beginnings as a relationship-based suicide-risk assessment technique to one that is used in contemporary practice by practitioners to meet a range of objectives. The research focused on three SPC techniques in operation in clinical practice: verbal no-suicide assurances, no-suicide agreements, and written no-suicide contracts. Analysis of the data suggests a number of important findings. The first of these is that practitioners perceive different utility among these three techniques. Secondly, the least experienced practitioners were significantly less likely to use no-suicide contracts, despite seeing more suicidality and having more formal training in the use of the technique. Thirdly, a practitioner's gender, and formal training were significant in the perception and application of SPC techniques. Finally, suicidal behaviours and completed suicide was a clinical outcome in some situations irrespective of the use and non-use of SPC. The findings of this research are used to provide an emerging conceptual framework and associated nomenclature that inform clinical decision-making in relation to SPC. In addition, a conceptual model is presented which demonstrates that the potential for injudicious use of SPC techniques is as much precipitated by individual factors as it is by broader environmental factors. Key words: no-suicide contracts, suicide prevention contracts, no-suicide agreements, no-suicide decisions, contingency contracting.
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Edmonson, Jimmie R. "Hopelessness, Self-Efficacy, Self-Esteem and Powerlessness in Relation to American Indian Suicide." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5509/.
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The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the independent variables of age, gender, residence, tribal affiliation, and perceived government control over tribal rights and the dependent variables of hopelessness, self-efficacy, and self-esteem. These attitudes are then explored as to their relationship to possible feelings of powerlessness among American Indians. The survey instruments used are the Beck Hopelessness Scale consisting of 20 items (Beck, Weissman, Lester, and Trexler, 1974), (Reproduced by permission of publisher, Psychological Corporation), the Self-Efficacy Scale consisting of 30 items (Sherer, Maddox, Merchandante, Prentice-Dunn, Jacobs, and Rodgers, 1982) (Reproduced by permission of Dr. Ronald W. Rogers), the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale consisting of 10 items (Rosenberg, 1972) (Reproduced by permission of Dr. Florence Rosenberg) and a demographic questionnaire consisting of 6 items. These instruments were administered to 60 American Indians that make up the sample population of 25 respondents from tribal lands (reservation setting) and 35 respondents from an urban setting. Statistical analysis consists of crosstabulations using Chi-Square and t-tests (used to verify Chi-Square) to determine the significance of the relationship of the independent variables to the dependent variables previously mentioned. Fifteen hypotheses (page 10) were tested to explore the relationships between the above independent variables and the dependent variables. Out of the 15 hypotheses that were investigated two were supported. The two hypotheses are hypothesis 10 and 11. Hypothesis 10 states; American Indians who live on a reservation have more hopelessness than those who live in an urban setting. This hypothesis was indicated to be marginal by Chi-Square analysis but when a t-test was conducted it was shown to be significant. Hypothesis 11 states; American Indians in urban residency will have more self-efficacy than reservation residents. While the data provided minimal support for the theory that hopelessness, self-efficacy, and self-esteem have a relationship to feelings of powerlessness and thus suicide in the American Indian population the outcome of the study provides pertinent data for future research.
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Olindo-Weber, Silvana. "Stase et suicide." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb376001239.
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Gurbuz, Suheyl. "Suicidality among Turkish Adolescents: Comparing Durkheim's and Tarde's Perspectives." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248465/.
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Suicidality is an important problem among adolescents. This study compares Durkheim's and Tarde's perspectives on suicide. While the Durkheimian perspective alleges that integration, regulation, and anomie play the major role on adolescent suicidality, Tarde's theory considers imitation as the most important factor affecting suicidality. Durkheim suggests that individuals with higher integration and regulation are less likely to commit suicide. Individuals with less integration and regulation, on the other hand, are more likely to experience anomie and higher suicidality. Tarde claims that individuals with suicidal peers are more likely to commit suicide. In particular, the effects of school integration, family integration, peer integration, religious integration, neighborhood integration, family regulation, anomie, and suicide imitation on adolescent suicidality in Turkey are examined using binary logistics regression in the current attempt. The results indicate that school integration, family integration, and religious integration have significant negative effects on adolescents' suicidality whereas suicide imitation has a positive effect. The results of the study are expected to help to prevention programs purposed at reducing suicidality among adolescents.
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Nichols, Erica. "Explaining the Relationship Between Borderline Personality Features and Suicidal Ideation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699872/.
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Researchers have previously identified substance use and borderline personality disorder as factors that increase risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors. This study explored the relationship between these factors in samples of students and individuals seeking outpatient treatment. Supplemental data collected via the internet (MTurk) also looked at experiential avoidance (EA) with the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth. The Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM-IV, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, Scale for Suicide Ideation, and Personality Assessment Inventory- Borderline Features Scale elicited information regarding severity and/or frequency of substance use, suicidal thoughts, and borderline features respectively. Additionally, the Psychiatric Diagnostic Screening Questionnaire was administered to the UNT sample. The UNT sample analyses indicate substance use moderates, strengthening, the relationship between borderline features and current suicidal thoughts. However, severity of suicidal thoughts was lower for individuals high in both borderline features and substance use disorder symptoms compared to those low in borderline features and high in substance use symptoms. The MTurk sample analyses suggest substance use functions as a mediator. A robust relationship existed between substance use severity and EA, showing substance use as a behavioral marker for EA. In conclusion, concurrent treatment of substance use and borderline personality features would be beneficial in reducing risk for suicidal thoughts. Further investigation into the role and utility of addressing EA is warranted.
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Dechoz, Jacques. "Les Rites du suicide." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37612988s.
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Duncan, Bobby Charles. "Suicide: a Solo Interpretation Performance." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501100/.
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The purpose of this project was to determine if oral interpretation in a social context setting can be used as a persuasive means of suicide prevention. A script on suicide was compiled, directed and performed as a solo performance by the writer. The thesis includes the script, a history of suicide prevention, the process of compiling a script for solo interpretation performance, and an overall evaluation of the production. This Author's evaluation was influenced by audience and critic responses.
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Capell, Matthew B. "Suicide Terrorism: A Future Trend?" Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3262/.
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This thesis reviews the literature on “new terrorism,” to be differentiated from the “old terrorism.” The study tests two hypotheses. First, has an increase in religiously inspired terrorist groups led to an increase in terrorism's lethality? Second, does suicide bombing as a tactic explain the increased lethality of “new terrorism”? The study demonstrates three findings. First, it was found that religiously inspired terrorist groups are more lethal, though not more indiscriminate. Second, that suicide bombing has had a significant effect on the number of terrorist related fatalities. And, third, that non-religious suicide bombing is more lethal than its religious counterpart. To test these hypotheses I used Ordinary Least Squares Regression and data provided by The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism.
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Anderberg, Thomas. "Suicide : definitions, causes and values /." Lund : Bromley : Lund university press ; Chartwell-Bratt, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35070070p.
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Schoch, Christian. "Approche psychanalytique de l'acte-suicide." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37601087h.
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Bayet, Albert Isambert François-André. "Le suicide et la morale /." Paris : l'Harmattan, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41106107x.
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Bender, John Brett. "Lost tramps & cherry tigers." Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/68/.
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Baechler, Jean. "Les suicides /." Paris : Hermann, 2009. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41488110g.
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Höglund, Kristina. "Suicidnära patienters erfarenheter av psykiatrisk vård : en litteraturstudie." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-8819.
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Suicid utgör fem gånger fler dödsfall jämfört med trafikolyckor i Sverige, vilket får förödande konsekvenser för många människor. Lidandet beskrivs vara outhärdligt inför självmordshandlingen. Sjuksköterskor behöver mer kunskap om hur människor som försökt ta sitt liv tänker om sin handling, följande litteraturöversikt avser öka kunskapen om hur sjuksköterskor kan bemöta och tala med en självmordsnära patient.Suicide accounts for five times more deaths in Sweden compared to traffic accidents, which has devastating consequenses for many people. The suffering is described as unbearable before the act of suicide. Nurses need to gain knowledge about how people who try to take their lives think about their action in order to increase knowledge about how nurses can talk and respond to a suicidal patient.
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Aghily, Wendi. "Suicide postvention plans: Are schools prepared to adjust to the new normal." Scholarly Commons, 2015. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/45.
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This project involves the review of suicide postvention plans across school districts in California. The goal is to identify which elements are meet the recommendation, address the recommendations or do not include the recommendations for best practices in suicide postvention. This has been done by analyzing the plans across five components: preparation, identification and support for immediate needs, triage, identification and support for long term needs and a return to a new normal. Consideration was given to the format in which the plans were developed: websites, school safety plans, emergency operations plans, crisis response plans and suicide response plans. Through analyzing the plans, this research identifies the lack of preparation of schools to engage in postvention activities after a suicide.
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Curran, Rebecca Alison English Media & Performing Arts Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. ""Internal difference/where the meanings, are": a theory of productive mourning." Awarded by:University of New South Wales, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/34956.
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This thesis is a response to the abstract phenomenon of bereavement as well as to the death of an actual beloved. It situates mourning as ethically and politically significant, reading it as an instance of crisis for the bereaved subject as well as for the culture in which she is located. Via theorists as diverse as Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, Dominick LaCapra and Donald Winnicott, the thesis considers the enabling potential that is implicated in this crisis. It suggests that mourning has the capacity to manifest productively as a form of localised intervention or "revolt" that simultaneously invigorates the inner life of the subject and subverts certain ideological aspects of contemporary, Western culture. In particular, the thesis suggests that the significance of productive mourning lies in its capacity to attenuate, via an anti-elegiac approach to narrative, the normative discourse of "identity", a crucial element of the discursive network that sustains a socio-political system mired in the "truth" of liberal individualism. Productive mourning facilitates an interrogation of the self-other/subject-object dialectic embedded in Western culture. This interrogation might be conceived as a deconstruction of the subject in its privileged status relative to alterity, the deconstruction of, in other words, "identity" and its processes. The thesis is informed by the author's experience of bereavement and mourning following suicide. Utilising a fictocritical approach, it performs a commentary in addition to an argument, evincing a unique approach to delineating the personal, cultural and ethical significance of loss.
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Goans, Christian. "Universal Suicide Risk Screening in the Parkland Health and Hospital System: Evaluation of the Parkland Algorithm for Suicide Screening." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1538660/.
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Suicide is a significant public health issue in the US. Despite national and international prioritization since 1996, little definitive progress has been made in terms of identification and intervention in cases of elevated suicide risk. Forty percent of those who died by suicide attended an emergency department within a year of death. Therefore, universal suicide risk screening in emergency departments could prove a vital component to a national suicide prevention strategy. The present study empirically evaluated the universal suicide risk screening program recently implemented at Parkland Health and Hospital System. The sample consisted of patients over 18 years of age (N=333,855; Mage=42.7, 32% male) screened as part of routine clinical care from May 4th, 2015, through November 3rd, 2015. The Parkland Algorithm for Suicide Screening (PASS) is part of a clinical decision support system for responses to Columbia - Suicide Severity Rating Scale Clinical Practice Screener (C-SSRS) items, leading to an automated clinical response via three suicide risk stratification levels: no action for no risk identified, psychiatric social worker assessment for moderate risk identified, and psychiatrist/psychologist interview for high risk identified. The present study used receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, which found the PASS predicted disposition (z=30.46, p<.001, AUC=.78, CI95=.77, .81). This study also evaluated the cutpoints separating suicide risk stratification and levels of clinical response. The results supported the first cutpoint and highlighted a need for additional data to address the second cutpoint. The results of the present study suggest that the universal suicide risk screening program at Parkland Health and Hospital System is an important step toward addressing suicide prevalence in the US.
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Wyder, Marianne. "Understanding deliberate self harm an enquiry into attempted suicide /." View thesis, 2004. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20050831.165416/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2004."A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, School of Applied and Human Sciences, University of Western Sydney" Includes bibliography.
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Burger, Vincent. "Substrats suicide potentiels d'enzymes synthèse et résultats biologiques /." Grenoble 2 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37612308n.
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Brunhari, Marcos Vinicius. "O ato suicida e sua falha." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47133/tde-08032016-145127/.
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O trabalho O ato suicida e sua falha traz como questão central, a partir do escopo psicanalítico, o estatuto de ato do suicídio e o a posteriori de sua falha. Aposta-se na possibilidade de abordagem pela via da psicanálise de um fato que pode se manifestar de forma extrema e disruptiva e que, em um primeiro momento, aproxima-se daquilo que se caracteriza por uma extração considerável de palavra. Segue-se assim o objetivo de estruturar um campo conceitual orientado por Freud e Lacan, desde o qual se torna hábil organizar a questão acerca do momento do ato suicida e o estatuto disto que falha. Dada a amplitude dessa problemática, busca-se, por meio de uma redução encaminhada pela seleção de elementos específicos, traçar um percurso que permite situar uma teoria freudiana do suicídio que toma como pontos de firmamento o campo do ato e a metapsicologia da melancolia. Na sequência, tendo como pontos balizadores o Seminário, livro 10 A angústia (1962-63) e o Seminário, livro 15 O ato psicanalítico (1967-68), considera-se o suicídio circunscrito por Lacan aos parâmetros do ato pela conceituação de passagem ao ato e acting out. A hipótese de uma teoria freudiana do suicídio, firmada sobre os pilares conceituais de ato e melancolia, tem como eixo aquilo que escapa ao que é da ordem do representável e que se apresenta como um insuportável. Assim, recorre-se a Lacan com o objetivo de aprofundar esta problemática defendendo uma continuidade teórica entre a teoria freudiana do suicídio e a conceituação de passagem ao ato e acting out desde a asserção do objeto a. Este insuportável que perpassa a teoria freudiana do suicídio como da ordem de um irrepresentável encontra na conceituação lacaniana de objeto a um articulador. Este objeto como protagonista é definidor de uma temporalidade em que são diferenciados o momento do ato, do triunfo do a, e o depois em que o Outro se espraia como horizonte e onde o sujeito se reposiciona. É neste horizonte que a falha do ato pode ser viabilizada enquanto significante e isso apenas pode ser feito por aquele que sobre isso fala. Propõe-se que o ato suicida só pode ser valorado tal como pelo sujeito que, após a ruptura, se posiciona frente a seu ato e tem a possibilidade de então se implicar de maneira singularThe thesis \"The suicidal act and its failure\" brings as its central proposition, from the psychoanalytic scope, the suicidal act statute and the posteriori of its failure. It is considered the possibility of an approach through Psychoanalysis of a fact which can manifest in an extreme and disruptive way and that, at first, approaches what is characterized by a considerable words extraction. It is followed by the objective of structuring a theoretical field oriented by Freud and Lacan, from which enables it to organize the question regarding the suicidal act and its statute that fails. In consideration of such extent of this problematics, it is aimed, supported by a reduction directed by the selection of specific elements, to delineate a journey which allows locating a Freuds theory of suicide that considers as cornerstones the field of the act and the metapsychology of melancholy. Further, setting as landmarks the Seminar, book 10 The Anguish (1962-63) and the Seminar, book 15, - The Psychoanalytic act (1967-68), it is considered the suicide conditioned by Lacan to the act parameters by conceptualization of passage to the act and acting out. The hypothesis of a Freudian theory of suicide, consolidated over the conceptual pillars of act and melancholy, has its axis on that which escapes to what belongs to the representable range and which presents itself as unbearable. Therefore, Lacan is called upon aiming to deepen this problematics advocating a theoretical continuity between Freuds theory of suicide and the passage to the act and acting approach starting with the object a proposition. This unbearableness which permeates Freuds suicide theory in the order of a non representable encounters an articulator at Lacans concept of object a. This object as protagonist determines a temporality in which are differentiated the moment of the act, the triumph of a, and the afterwards in which the Other spreads as horizon and where the subject repositions itself. It is within this horizon that the act failure can be enabled as significant and only this can be executed by the one who speaks about it. It is proposed that the suicidal act can only be valued as such by the subject who, after the disruption, positions himself towards his act and has the possibility of at that time imply himself in a unique way
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Nichols, Erica. "Variations in Suicidal Ideation Among Substance Users." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc177234/.
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Research suggests that substance use is a risk factor for increased suicidal ideation. This study explored the relationship between substance use, suicidal ideation, and impulsivity in a sample of college students and individuals seeking outpatient treatment. Participants were interviewed for information on severity of suicidal ideation and substance use. Participants completed the Psychiatric Diagnostic Screening Questionnaire, the substance use section of the Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM-IV, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, the Scale for Suicide Ideation, and the UPPS-P Impulsivity Behavior Scale. These measures were used to determine the amount of variance in suicidal ideation accounted for by substance use. Variables reflecting substance use classification, frequency, and severity were used to predict severity of suicidal ideation.
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Beattie, Jessica Kathrine. "Second Life, Second Chance." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1011809/.
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This is a collection of two stories, one fiction and one non-fiction, in communication with one another. Both stories explore how trauma can transform a life. In "Tabula Rasa," Mena is unable to recall her past after being beaten and left for dead. She must choose whether to uncover her past or forget it and move forward with her life. Set in a town run by witches, Mena learns that both choices are dangerous. In "Eternal Second," the narrator recounts the aftermath of her husband's suicide. She explores how trauma invades all aspects of her life. In both stories, women must navigate a new life created by the destruction of the old one.
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Carlos, Flávia Pinhal de. "O lugar obsceno do suicídio." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/98293.
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Esta dissertação busca interrogar a relação entre o obsceno e o suicídio, levando em conta a teoria psicanalítica. Inicia-se falando sobre a leitura de Durkheim sobre o suicídio e diferentes abordagens psicanalíticas sobre o tema. Opta-se por seguir a leitura de Jinkis e Pipink, que entendem que o suicídio pode ser lido como ato, ato falho, passagem ao ato ou acting out. Então, uma breve apresentação sobre cada um desses conceitos é feita, seguida pela análise de como um suicídio pode ser lido em cada uma dessas situações. Logo, parte-se para uma reflexão acerca do obsceno, que é entendido como o que não pode ser colocado em cena. Relaciona-se o obsceno com a morte, que é mostrada em sua vertente repugnante, que está relacionada com o impensável de nossa desaparição. Uma vez que o obsceno comporta a dialética mostrar-ocultar, ele coloca em jogo a pulsão escópica e, por conseguinte, a questão do olhar em psicanálise é abordada. O olhar é entendido como uma das vertentes do objeto a e se relaciona com o desejo de ver, desejo de saber. Por fim, aborda-se a relação entre o obsceno e o suicídio, sustentando-se a ideia de que o suicídio pode ter um lugar obsceno.This dissertation seeks to interrogate the relationship between suicide and the obscene considering the psychoanalytic theory. Starts talking about Durkheim’s reading on suicide and different psychoanalytic approaches to the topic. Is chosen to follow the reading of Jinkis and Pipink who understand that suicide can be read as an act, Freudian slip, passage to the act or acting in out. Then, a brief presentation on each of these concepts is made, followed by how a suicide can be read in each of these situations. So, we go to a reflection about the obscene, which is understood as what can not be put into play. Relates obscene with death that is shown in its disgusting aspect, which is related to the unthinkable of our disappearance. Once obscene involves the dialectical show and hide, it brings into play the scopic drive, therefore the question the gaze in psychoanalysis is discussed. The gaze is understood as one aspect of the object a and it relates to the desire to see, desire to know. Finally, it handles the relationship between the obscene and suicide, where it supports the idea that suicide may have a obscene place.
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Johnson, Jennie Larry. "A Dream Deferred: Suicide and Self-Harm in Middle America." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1707263/.
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Middle America is dying. The United Nations reports the average number of deaths per 1,00 population in the U.S. has steadily increased an average of 1.2 per 1,000 persons annually since 2015. Existing research offer conflicting theories regarding the factors influencing the phenomenon. the purpose of this study was to examine reliable and valid secondary data to determine if statistical evidence exists to support the prevailing theories. Statistical evidence was observed that suggests the crude death rates among U.S. non-Hispanic white (NHWs) populations was significantly higher than other U.S. population segments between 2015 and 2018. Statistical evidence was also observed that suggests U.S. NHWs sought ambulatory services for alcohol and drug use self-injuries at higher rates than other U.S. population segments. However, the evidence suggest that U.S. NHWs are not more likely to experience earlier than expected deaths from excessive alcohol or drug use than other U.S. population segments. The study's implications are that U.S. policy makers should consider long-term economic development and sustainability strategies focused on the promotion of higher education as a deterrent to self-harm among U.S. residents without college degrees or skills certifications. The study recommends future large-scale quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-use studies that examine the micro, meso, and macro factors influencing higher than expected morality rates among U.S. residents.
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Fern, Maxime, and n/a. "Use of systemic family therapy with adolescent suicide (patterns of belonging)." University of Canberra. Education, 1988. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060505.151922.
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This study investigated the application of six techniques from systemic family therapy.
A review of the history of family therapy identified the major contributions from
general psychiatry, communications theory and cybernetics which had combined to
form the therapies known collectively as systemic family therapy. The theory was
outlined and examined and the major assumptions which are the basis for specific
techniques of therapy within this model were identified. Six of these techniques were
examined and demonstrated in therapy. The outcome of each technique was
assessed.
A family was seen from initial contact to termination, using a two member team
approach (Viaro and Leonardi, 1983) in which-one therapist observed the other
through a one way video arrangement. The presenting problem was a suicide
attempt by an adolescent, culminating in admission to hospital.
Therapy using the model was concluded in four sessions. Follow-up at six months
disclosed no further admissions to hospital and a report from the family that they
were satisfied with the outcome of therapy.
Distinctions between first and second order cybernetic therapy were made and the
therapists were found to adhere to a first order model. Successful and unsuccessful
use of the techniques is identified and discussed. Using as a measure the absence
of further suicide attempts and the family's self reported reduction in the number of
arguments between the parents and the identified patient, it was concluded that the
use of the nominated techniques from systemic family therapy had enabled
successful intervention.
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Pérard, Serge. "Synthèse et activité biologique d'inhibiteurs-suicide de la biosynthèse de l'aldostérone." Grenoble 2 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37617495w.
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Hirsch, Jameson K., Andrea Kaniuka, Byron Brooks, Kittye K. Hirsch, Abbey K. Mann, Stacey L. Williams, Tracy J. Cohn, and Julia Dodd. "What the Trump?Anticipated Rejectionand Concern aboutRights are Associatedwith Suicide Risk inLGBTQ Communities,but Can ResilienceTrump Risk?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/702.
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It is common knowledge that LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) communities experience disparate rates of mental health concerns, including greater levels of self-reported depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicidal behavior (Bränström, Hatzenbuehler, & Pachankis, 2016). As an example, gay and bisexual men are four times as likely and lesbian and bisexual women are 2 times as likely, to attempt suicide compared to heterosexual counterparts (King et al., 2008). Between 25-43% of transgender persons have a lifetime history of suicide attempts, compared to 5% of the general US population (Nock & Kessler, 2006). Such poor mental health outcomes may be due, in part, to a lack of acceptance by society in the form of discrimination and unequal rights, and to rejection by family, friends and the self, including internalized homophobia, concealment and shame (Skerrett, Kõlves, & De Leo, 2016). LGBTQ persons are also more likely to have experienced trauma, including physical and sexual abuse, as well as interpersonal violence by intimate partners, family and strangers (LangenderferMagruder, Whitfeld, Walls, Kattari, & Ramos, 2016). LGBTQ communities, therefore, constitute a vulnerable and marginalized population, who are already at risk for rejection and abuse with consequent deleterious effects on physical and mental health, including risk for suicide.
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Fausto, Melchor Veronica Lorraine. "HOSPICE SOCIAL WORKERS’ ATTITUDE ON PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE AND PRACTICE UNDER CALIFORNIA’S END OF LIFE OPTION ACT." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/632.
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Currently in the United States, five states have enacted physician-assisted suicide as a legal end of life option for terminal patients. Research indicates that most patients who have died under this mean have been enrolled in hospice services. With the recent enactment of California’s End of Life Option Act, hospice social workers will find themselves educating and assisting patients and/or their families with this and other end of life decisions. Research has thoroughly examined physician and nurses’ involvement and attitude in the matter, but little has been researched regarding social workers. This study aimed to identify the factors that affect hospice social workers’ attitude towards physician-assisted suicide and how California’s End of Life Option Act affects their practice. In-depth face-to- face interviews with 8 hospice social workers were conducted. The study found that all 8 participants held positive attitudes towards physician-assisted suicide, support the End of Life Option Act, and feel prepared to assist patients and handle requests for the End of Life Option. Factors such as social work values and professional experience have a positive effect and validate their attitude, and factors such as religion does not affect their attitude. Due to low participation, the overall results were limited; therefore, additionally research should be extensively conducted to gain a better understanding. Regardless, a structured physician-assisted suicide protocol for social workers would benefit micro practice and macro developments.
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Kaniuka, Andrea, Kelley C. Pugh, Megan Jordan, Byron Brooks, Julia Dodd, Abbey K. Mann, Stacey L. Williams, and Jameson K. Psychology Hirsch. "Stigma and Suicide Risk Among the LGBTQ Population: Are Anxiety and Depression to Blame and Can Connectedness to the LGBTQ Community Help?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8011.
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LGBTQ individuals may be at risk for suicidal behavior due to perceived stigma and psychopathology. However, protective factors, such as community connectedness, may reduce risk. We examined depression and anxiety as mediators of the linkage between perceived stigma and suicidal behavior, and the moderating role of LGBTQ community connectedness. Among our sample of LGBTQ persons (N = 496), psychopathology mediated the association between perceived stigma and suicidal behavior. Connectedness moderated the relation between perceived stigma and depression, and between perceived stigma and suicidal behavior in the anxiety model. Therapeutically addressing stigma and promoting LGBTQ community connectedness may reduce risk for suicidal behavior.
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Kaiser-Asmodi, Katja. "Suizidprävention bei Adoleszenten : ein familienpsychologischer Ansatz auf der Grundlage der Familienstresstheorie /." Frankfurt am Main ; Berlin ; New York : P. Lang, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb370434062.
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VanHorn, Barbara. "Violence and depression among ethnically diverse, low income women: Mediating and moderating factors." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2594/.
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This longitudinal study examined factors influencing the relationship between sustained partner violence and depression/suicidality among ethnically diverse, low income, community women. The sample at Wave 1 consisted of 303 African American, 273 Euro-American, and 260 Mexican American women in long term relationships with a household income less that twice the poverty threshold. There were no ethnic differences on frequency of partner violence, depression, or suicidality. The moderate relationship between partner violence and women's depression, confirmed previous findings. Frequency, but not recency, of violence predicted depression and suicidal ideation for African Americans and Mexican Americans, even after controlling for earlier depression or ideation. Recent violence did not predict Euro-American's depression or suicidality after controlling for initial scores. Causal and responsibility attributions for partners' violence did not mediate the relationship between violence and depression or suicidality in any ethnic group. However, African American women's attributions of global effects for violence mediated the relationship of violence on depression and suicidal ideation. Poverty level and marital status moderated the relationship between violence and the number of times women seriously considered and actually attempted suicide. Frequent violence was most lethal among the poorest women and marriage provided the least protection for women in the most violent relationships. Specifically, poverty status moderated violence on consideration of suicide for African Americans and Euro-Americans and suicide attempts among Mexican Americans. Marital status moderated partners' violence on suicidal ideation and attempts for Mexican Americans and consideration of suicide for Euro-Americans, but was not a moderator for African Americans' depression or suicidality. Women with different ethnic backgrounds appear to differ in the ways partner violence contributes to their depression and suicidality. Policy implications include the need to offer suicide intervention, particularly for low income women seeking services for violence. Mental health professionals should routinely inquire about partner violence when women present with depression or suicidality. Further, sensitivity to ethnic differences is recommended when confronting women's attributions regarding violence.
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Hamedi, Karine. "Scandale et suicide politiques : destins croisés de Pierre Bérégovoy et Robert Boulin /." Paris ; Montréal (Québec) : l'Harmattan, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb370442340.
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Cheung, Hing-fu, and 張興富. "Attempted suicide by drug overdose in Hong Kong: what are the differences between impulsive and non-impulsivesuicide attempters?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45171257.
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Mergl, Roland, Nicole Koburger, Katharina Heinrichs, András Székely, Mónika Ditta Tóth, James Coyne, Sónia Quintão, et al. "What are reasons for the large gender differences in the lethality of suicidal acts?" Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-175585.
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Background: In Europe, men have lower rates of attempted suicide compared to women and at the same time a higher rate of completed suicides, indicating major gender differences in lethality of
suicidal behaviour. The aim of this study was to analyse the extent to which these gender
differences in lethality can be explained by factors such as choice of more lethal methods or
lethality differences within the same suicide method or age. In addition, we explored gender
differences in the intentionality of suicide attempts.
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Price, Samantha Danielle. "Effects of Religious Attendance on Suicidal Ideation: Examining Potential Mediators of Social Support, Locus of Control, and Substance Abuse." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699865/.
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Religion has a well-documented relationship with mental health benefits and has consistently demonstrated an impact on several specific mental health concerns, including suicide, generally finding various religious facets to be inversely associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. More specifically, religion has been found to be associated with suicide in a number of ways, including decreased acceptance of suicide, decreased likelihood of suicidal thoughts, decreased likelihood of suicidal attempts, fewer suicide attempts, lower relative risk of suicide, lower suicide rate, and increased reasons for living. Several studies have proposed potential mediators (e.g., social support, locus of control, and substance abuse) of the relationship between religion and mental health, usually in non-clinical samples. The current study sought to examine the association between religious attendance and suicidal ideation using archival data of a clinical sample collected from the University of North Texas Psychology Clinic. Results from this sample revealed no evidence of mediation, instead suggesting a direct effect of religious attendance on suicidal ideation. Two mediation models demonstrated the effects of external locus of control and social support on suicidal ideation. These models are discussed in terms of their directionality, considering the extant research on these associations. Findings of the current study have implications for welcoming the incorporation of salient religious topics throughout treatment in mental health settings, including discussion of religious attendance among those clients who have identified religion as a personal value.