title: Two models of suicide.
abstract: Objective: The aim of this paper is to present two models of separate but related aspects of suicide, developed with a view to improving understanding and management of this behaviour. Conclusions: First, the predicament model of suicide posits that all suicide represents an escape from a predicament and associated distress. Predicaments are composed of either external (environmental) or internal (mental disorders) factors, or both. Suicide occurs when a threshold is exceeded on a suicide risk ladder, and the degree of movement toward the threshold in response to a particular stressor depends on a range of factors. Second, the suicide pathways model integrates medical and sociological concepts, with distress as the central component, and three run-offs: mental disorder, medicalized and a non-mental disorder (egoistic/anomic; reaction) suicide.
authors.affiliation: Professor of Mental Health, Centre for Remote Health, A joint centre of Flinders University and Charles Darwin University, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.
authors.forename: Saxby
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pridmore
authors.forename: Mohammed Yaacob
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Jamil