Thesis (PsyD.)--Marshall University, 2008. / Title from document title page. Includes abstract. Document formatted into pages: contains 67 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-48).

Thesis--University of Florida. / Description based on print version record. Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-90).

Akademisk avhandling--Lund. / Extra t.p., with thesis note and imprint (Lund, H. Ohlssons Boktr., 1945) inserted. Bibliography: p. [354]-360.

It is becoming increasingly apparent that suicide is a socio-psychiatric phenomenon with etiological roots in both the social system and in the individual personality. Suicide as a problem is worth studying for only as further research sheds light on the complexity of motives and causes can clinical and educative programmes be improved and social policies and changes be introduced. In the past the treatment of attempted suicide has been the prerogative of psychiatry but with the realization that the suicide act has important social aspects, the place of the social worker is being given greater emphasis. This thesis examines social attitudes toward self-destruction as they have evolved through the course of the history of civilization. It reviews the major theories which have been advanced to account for the occurrence of suicide, classifying them broadly into two groups: those which assign the causes to various forms of social disorganization and those which assign the causes to psychic disturbances and disorders. It is recognized that these approaches to the problem — the sociological and the psychological — are complementary and that a consideration of their mutual relevance is especially important in planning the establishment of effective preventive services. The existing treatment and preventive facilities are critically examined as is the present state of the law regarding suicide. It is concluded that the law rests on ecclesiastical postulates which no longer appear binding in a predominantly secular society. Some proposals for the development of a treatment and prevention programme are made in light of the experimental work of the Suicide Prevention Center in Los Angeles. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

This is an exploratory assessment of the help given suicide patients admitted to a general hospital. The focus of the study is twofold: (a) to examine the kind of treatment administered at the hospital, including rehabilitation and follow-up plans for each patient; and (b) to determine the role of the social worker in this program. The study is based on the examination of the hospital records of 71 patients, who attempted suicide in 1948, and were admitted to Vancouver General Hospital for observation and treatment. The group as a whole is described with the aid of statistical data, no attempt being made to deduce causes from this evidence. More emphasis has been placed on the mental and emotional aspects of suicide, to outline some of the deeper, unconscious causations of suicidal behaviour. Case illustrations are discussed in the attempt to exemplify these factors. The theoretical background of the thesis is drawn from psychiatric literature in United States and Great Britain. Evidence in this study suggest that almost no help is given these patients, in the hospital, to relieve the psychological and social conflicts. There are grounds for urging that the social worker could play a valuable role in the treatment team, and that social work services are not being used to the extent they could be. Suggestions are presented regarding an adequate hospital program for suicidal patients, in which the psychiatrists, social worker, psychologist and nurses would work together to make a clinical study of each patient. On the basis of adequate clinical study, constructive recommendations on treatment and rehabilitation plans could be made, and the groundwork laid for an adequate program of follow-up services. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

[no abstract included] / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

Man is not always plainly discernible in scientific writings about him. His individuality denied, in many psychological studies man becomes a cipher. Science demands useful generalisations, and psychiatry is in part so unsatisfactory in discipline precisely because human life is complex. To affect an impression of simplicity when encountering bewildering diversity, although usual remains foolish, particularly when important matters are being dealt with. Suicidal behaviour is important, because it is common and touches the lives of many people. When hundreds of people presented themselves after behaving self-destructively, it seemed gradually to emerge that suicidal persons do resemble each other, and that there are aspects of similarity in their personalities and their suicidal acts. Psychological study of people is a worthy occupation now that we have lately learning how al men pass the major portion of their emotional lives in secret, their continuing passions hidden not only from their close associates but, indeed from themselves.

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Thesis (MHSc--Health Science) -- Auckland University of Technology, 2004. / Also held in print (77 leaves, 30 cm.) in Akoranga Theses Collection (T 616.858445 GOL)

Thesis (M. S.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Thomas E Joiner, Jr., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Psychology. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Feb. 6, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 34 pages. Includes bibliographical references.