Module 4 - Suicide and Self Harm

Protective factors:

Behavioral cues that suicide risk is elevated

Cutting or para-suicide is often romanticized in social media and art.

A person who has a previous suicide attempt is at high probability for another attempt.

Medication often ordered for people with suicidal thoughts;

Suicide is 50 times more likely in persons with Schizophrenia

Suicide attempts are prevalent among family members.

Asking a person if they are suicidal will give them the idea to do it.

Other reasons for self-injury:

The most important assessment you can make is asking the person about suicidal feelings.

Warning signs for suicide:

When a "cutter" states he is suicidial:

Lithium carbonate is effective treatment for suicidal ideation and suicide attempts.

Self-injury (cutting, etc.) is usually done to help decrease psychic pain or numbness.

No-suicide contracts are proven effective.

Assisted suicide is legal in all 50 states

Suicidal ideation is the manifestion of:

Self-harm/self-injury are generally treated:

Suicide

LGBT young people are more likely to commit suicide than their heterosexual contemporaries.