Published in the Official Gazette of the American Association of Suicidology, the book gives of doctors and researchers significant new resources to advance suicide prevention, improve treatment and reduce the likelihood of further attempts.
"Know why someone has attempted suicide is crucial - it tells us how to best help recover them," says Professor David Klonsky, Department of psychology at UBC. "This new tool will help us to go beyond the current approach"passe-partout"prevention of suicide, which is essential. Interventions and treatments require different motivations."
The study, based on the 120 participants who have recently attempted to commit suicide, suggests several motivations expected to play an important role in the suicide is relatively rare. For example, suicide attempts were rarely the result of an effort to resolve a financial or practical problem, a call to rescue or impulsivity. All the motivations for suicide, as universal found both in all participants were despair and overwhelming emotional pain.
The study also finds that suicide attempts, influenced by social factors - such as efforts to get the help or influence others - generally had a less pronounced intention to die and were conducted with the most chance of rescue. On the other hand, attempted suicide motivated by internal factors - such as despair and unbearable pain - are made with the greatest desire to die.
"It may be surprising to some, but focusing on the motivations is a new approach in the field of research of suicide - and urgent," Klonsky says. "So far, emphasis was largely on the types of people, attempted suicide - their demographics, their genetics – without really exploring the motivations. This is the first work to proceed in a systematic way. ?
Source-Eurekalert
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