Challenges to Classifying Suicidal Ideations, Communications, and Behaviours

International Handbook of Suicide Prevention: Research, Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 7-25

  Silverman, Morton M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beck et al., and suicidal behaviour classification suicidal ideas, suicide attempts, completed suicide; Challenges, in developing and implementation a standardized nomenclature, classification system; Consensus, required with regard evaluation of clinical and preventive interventions; Definitional obfuscation confusion, on what constitutes suicidal behaviour; Deliberate Self Harm (DSH) and Non Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI) concept of deliberate self harm, and Kreitman's 'parasuicide'; Jobes and colleagues, identifying 20 sources of variability reporting of suicide data; Major difficulties, in communicating about suicidal phenomena not speaking in the same scientific language; Standardized nomenclature and classification system in field of suicidology; Suicidal determinants and frameworks classifying suicidal ideations, communications and behaviours; Suicide literature, and confusing terms definitions and classifications

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EID: 84886222896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119998556.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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