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Suicide
A woman, who believes she is terminally ill, hires a man to kill her, believing that's the only way for her to escape a drawn-out, painful death while still allowing her husband to collect on life insurance. But soon after hiring the man, she realizes she's not dying, that she's been set-up.
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Public school counselors' attitudes to suicide/suicide intervention
<p>Most of the research on suicide/suicide intervention has focused upon client characteristics and attitudes. Little research, especially in the school setting, has been done on counselor characteristics and attitudes as key variables in these situations. This study was done, at least partially, …
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Suicide in Chicago: An Examination of Emile Durkheim's Theory of Suicide
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Attitudes towards suicide: A structural model and its relationship to experience with suicide.
Two of the main approaches to understanding suicide are the sociological and the psychological. The former explains suicide as a consequence of social factors; the latter explains suicide as a consequence of individual factors. Through an examination of both social (i.e., participants' exposure to …
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Counselors’ Spirituality, Attitudes Toward Suicide, and Self-Efficacy in Conducting Suicide Risk Assessment
… and counselor self-efficacy in conducting suicide risk assessment, and the moderating effects of attitudes about suicide on this relationship. Based on existing theory and empirical evidence, perceived spiritual support was hypothesized to have a positive predictive relationship with …
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Teacher perceptions of youth suicide: Knowledge and opinions of suicide and perceived self-efficacy in the identification of students at risk for suicide
… teachers’ perceptions and understanding of youth suicide. Specifically, this study aimed to determine the extent of teachers’ knowledge of youth suicide, attitudes toward suicide, level of perceived importance in their role in identifying youth at risk for suicide, and sense of self-efficacy in …
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Inequality of suicide in South Korea: Unequal distribution of completed suicide and suicidal ideation
Suicide in South Korea, considered a serious social issue, has been investigated by a number of scholars in multidisciplinary fields. However, suicide continues to be framed and focused only on limited aspects, such as having an individual-level focus on problems they face in only biomedical and …
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Experiences following a suicide attempt
A suicide attempt is a very significant and usually disturbing event for the person who makes the attempt, for his or her family, and for clinicians who respond. Moreover, epidemiological studies have established that a suicide attempt is associated with an increased risk of subsequent attempt or …
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Suicide Terrorism: A Future Trend?
… 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 …
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Suicide Seasonality In South Carolina
<p>Suicide is a major public health concern in United States. Nearly 34,000 died by suicide in 2007 alone, and it was the 11th leading cause of death for that year. In addition, self-directed violent behavior consumes several economic, social, and health care resources. Such deaths and resource …
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The language of suicide notes
This thesis reports a study of a corpus of 286 suicide notes collected from the Birmingham Coroner’s Office, with additional findings from 33 real and 33 fabricated notes from Los Angeles. Following some background regarding how suicide notes are treated by Coroners’ Courts and other courts in the …
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“Will I follow you into the dark?": Effects of celebrity suicide on suicide-attempt rates
… research has shown that mass-media reports of a suicide death predict an increase in suicide deaths, dubbed the Werther effect (Niederkrotenthaler, et al., 2012). Content intended to protect from suicide contagion in mass-media reports of suicide may reduce the Werther effect, described as the …
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Suicide Mortality of Emergency Department Patients
… association of these variables with subsequent suicide mortality.</p> <p><strong>Rationale </strong>Identifying patients who are most at risk of suicide mortality post ED discharge can focus resources, refine interventions, and prevent suicide. Additionally, recognizing patterns of ED care …
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Suicide Assessment Training in Counselor Education
… regarding assessment and intervention of suicide, specifically regarding training counseling students to assess and intervene with potentially suicidal individuals. The author developed an online suicide assessment and intervention training module to train counseling students how to assess …
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Preservice Teachers Knowledge of Adolescent Suicide
… through their academic years. With the rise of suicide in school age children, responsibility has fallen to teachers to better recognize and understand students who may be suicidal. This study sought to answer the question: to what degree does teaching certification, teaching experience, and …
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Tendencies Toward Suicide Among College Students
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