Suicide across the life span: pathways to prevention.
As reflected in a recent series of highly visible suicide awareness and prevention activities, the call for a comprehensive suicide prevention strategy has never been stronger, nor more unified. Using the framework provided by the transactional model of human development, the author illustrates the central implications that a developmental perspective has for suicide prevention, emphasizing the need to consider multiple pathways to prevention, to place renewed emphasis on prevention strategies that have their impact earlier in the life course and earlier in the course of mental disorder, and to collaborate with prevention specialists and advocates in related fields.
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0390, USA. kingca@umich.edu
D015897:Comorbidity; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010553:Personality Development; D012307:Risk Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014152:Transactional Analysis; D000092864:Suicide Prevention