title: [Repeated suicide attempts: a need for continued care].
abstract: Prevention of deliberate self-harm, especially suicide attempts, remains difficult and this puts a great burden on the family as well as on the health-care professionals. The risk of a subsequent suicide attempt or a successful suicide is high while the behaviour is often met with antipathy, a feeling of helplessness and anger. This is in conflict with the needs of the patient; every suicide attempt requires the health-care professionals involved to exhibit a emphatic, patient and serious attitude, even when patients refuse to cooperate, are restless, aggressive or unwilling to communicate. Prevention of the suicidal behaviour can only be achieved this way.
authors.affiliation: Ziekenhuis Rijnstate, afd. Psychiatrie, Arnhem.
authors.forename: J H A M
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Tuerlings
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Van Waarde
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Verwey
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011594:Psychometrics; D012307:Risk Factors; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Recidiverende suïcidepogers: hulp blijven aanbieden.