Concludes that thyroid and adrenal gland disease unquestionably can produce severe mental disturbances. Most of these are "organic" in nature, but depressive symptoms are common as well. Cautions that a connection between these diseases and suicide has not been established. Advises treating all depressed, suicidal persons with the same…

Evaluated emotional and intellectual correlates of unsuccessful suicide attempts in persons with seizure disorders. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Scores demonstrated increased anxiety and decreased ego strength among those with histories of suicide attempts, while intellectual abilities as evaluated by the Wechsler Adult Intelligence…

Discusses suicide care as a core curriculum component of psychiatry residency. Discusses the reasons for formal conceptualization of suicide care education and offers a model curriculum as a reference for residency programs to compare their own activities in this important area of psychiatry. (Author/ABB)

Forensic suicides and suicide attempts challenge certain premises long held by classical suicidologists. Chronic ambiguity and free-floating rage, attributes exacerbated by the jail-like environment of many forensic units, pose a situation whereby either the self or others become convenient targets for aggression release. (Author/BL)

Describes the Suicide Survivors Grief Group and presents the structure, dynamics, and problems of survivors, as well as the unique problems of grief in suicide death. Concluded that as long as suicide death is tabooed and stigmatized, there will be a need for separate grief groups for suicide survivors. (JAC)

Examined differences in stressful life events, stress symptoms, and problem solving ability to distinguish students with suicidal thoughts from those without suicidal thoughts. Students with suicidal thoughts reported more stress symptoms and were significantly less likely to have received information on how to deal with problems. (MCF)

Research on suicide in latency age children is reviewed and case histories of two nine-year-old children who suicided by shooting themselves and one seven-year-old who died by self-poisoning are presented. Similarities in environmental and family histories and in personality variables are discussed. (Author/BL)

Presents an 11-point scale for measuring the degree of lethality of suicide attempts. The scale has nine example "anchors" and uses the relative lethality of an extensive table of drugs. The scale can be used reliably by nonmedical personnel with no prior training. (Author/BL)

Compared suicidal behaviors among two populations in the same geographical area: clients at a psychology clinic versus individuals from the general population. In both samples, 10 percent of the individuals reported prior parasuicidal behavior; the two populations were also quite similar on reports of prior suicidal ideation. (JAC)

Used a case-control study to provide individual-based data from 5,009 suicides and 17,064 controls, describing the impact of being a cancer patient on the odds of suicide. Data indicated that cancer patients are 50 to 100 percent more likely than nonpatients to commit suicide. (JAC)

Reviews the literature related to studies measuring various cognitive properties in suicidal patients. Provides a structural framework with which to classify the studies and employs the categories of suicidal logic, cognitive style, social cognition, and cognitive control. The methodological issues are discussed. (JAC)

John is the pseudonym for a patient who died shortly after his discharge from a state hospital. This existential interpretation of John's suicide is surmised from personal contacts with the patient as well as from a careful reading of his notes and short stories. (Author)

This article, presented at the 1976 Convention of the American Association of Black Psychologists, examines suicide among Black women. The suicide rate for this group has increased more rapidly than among other groups studied. (Author/HMV)

Crafted to meet the day-to-day needs of school psychologists and other practitioners working with children, this is the most concise, practical, and up-to-date book of its kind. The expert author offers guidelines for interviewing children of different ages-as well as their parents and teachers-and for weaving the resulting data into multimethod…

Every aspect of coping with injuries and preventing injuries in school settings is covered in this book. It examines how and why students are injured and in what situations schools can be held responsible. It also explains how schools can provide a quick, efficient, and effective emergency response to injuries. How to collect injury data, how to…