Table of contents - Special Issue: Contemporary approaches to suicide and self-injury
Guest Editors: Dr. Robert J. Cramer
Suicidal imagery, history of suicidality, and acquired capability in young adults
Tara C Holaday, Amy M BrauschThe purpose of this paper is to examine the role of suicide-related mental imagery in suicidal behavior. It was hypothesized that greater frequency and vividness of…
An exploratory analysis of the relations between the rate of physiological habituation, the acquired capability for suicide, and acute risk factors for suicide
Phillip N Smith, Caitlin Wolford-Clevenger, Candice N Selwyn, Erin Poindexter, William Lechner, DeMond M. Grant, Kelly C CukrowiczThe interpersonal theory of suicide proposes that an individual must acquire the capability for suicide to carry out a near-lethal or lethal suicide attempt. This capability…
Clinical supervision in prison settings: three strategies for approaching suicide risk
Philip R Magaletta, Alix M McLearenDelivering suicide risk services (SRS; i.e., assessment and intervention) is an important and demanding aspect of psychological practice in prison settings. Yet the authors know…
Attitudes towards prisoners who self harm scale: a psychometric evaluation
Kerri Garbutt, Helen CaseyThe purpose of this paper is to report on the internal consistency, convergent validity and test-retest reliability of the Attitudes to Prisoners who Self-Harm scale (APSH). The…
Treating suicidal risk in a post-healthcare reform era
David A Jobes, Maureen Elizabeth BowersThe purpose of this paper is to fully consider the potential changes in clinical suicide prevention that may evolve after the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care…
Murder-suicide: bridging the gap between mass murder, amok, and suicide
Christopher Ryan Hagan, Matthew C Podlogar, Thomas E JoinerThe purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature on mass murder and amok, and the relationship of these phenomena to murder-suicide as well as to determine future…
Suicide in the U.S. army: stressor-strain hypothesis among deployed and nondeployed Army National Guard soldiers
James GriffithStudy samples, having responded to similar survey content, allowed examination of suicide risk factors for deployed soldiers relative to nondeployed or home station soldiers…
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1759-6599Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Associate Prof Philip Birch