A current perspective of suicide and attempted suicide.
Suicide and suicide attempts are a major cause of death and morbidity worldwide. Suicide is generally a complication of a psychiatric disorder, but it requires additional risk factors because most psychiatric patients never attempt suicide. This review includes a hypothesized stress-diathesis model, which has implications for detection of high-risk patients and treatment interventions, and discusses promising treatment approaches that have been recently identified.
Mann
J John
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Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. jjm@columbia.edu
D005190:Family; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008402:Mass Media; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D000092864:Suicide Prevention