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Suicide: Issues of prevention, intervention, and facilitation
Author(s) -
Nelson Franklyn L.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198411)40:6<1328::aid-jclp2270400608>3.0.co;2-0
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , suicide prevention , psychology , ambivalence , poison control , facilitation , injury prevention , crisis intervention , psychotherapist , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medical emergency , medicine , social psychology , neuroscience
The practice of suicide prevention directs the suicidal person to continue living despite the presence of a wish to die. In contrast, the concept of suicide intervention attempts to maintain a relatively more neutral position, one that allows for the possibility of death facilitation as well as prevention. The concept of suicide intervention implies the appropriateness of suicide for certain chronically distressed individuals and anticipates the emergence of prodeath intervention as a valid clinical procedure. A proposed suicide intervention model is contrasted with the goals and methods of existing suicide prevention and crisis counseling services. The issues of an appropriate death, premature death, an ambivalent attraction to death, and continued living in the face of chronically low life satisfaction are discussed.