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Female Suicide: The Trend Toward Increased Lethality in Method of Choice and Its Implications
Author(s) -
ROGERS JAMES R.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1990.tb01452.x
Subject(s) - lethality , psychology , suicide prevention , suicide methods , demography , medicine , suicide rates , poison control , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medical emergency , sociology , biology , toxicology
Results of recent analyses of statistics on suicide in the United States have documented a trend toward increased lethality in the method of choice in female suicides. A brief review of this research is presented, and its implications for female suicidal risk assessment are discussed.