Chapter 10: Suicide
After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: - Identify Shneidman's types of people who commit suicide.
- Discuss suicide rates and how they vary by gender, ethnicity, and nationality, age.
- Discuss the sociocultural, psychological, and biological theories of suicide.
- Identify reasons why it is difficult to study suicide scientifically.
- Discuss Durkheim's sociological theory of suicide.
- Discuss suicide contagion and why it might occur.
- Discuss the mental disorders associated with suicide.
- Describe the biological, psychological, and sociocultural interventions for suicide.
- Discuss the relationship between guns and suicide.
- Identify and explain the major arguments in the current debate concerning whether people have the right to commit suicide.
- Integrate the various factors contributing to suicide according to a diathesis-stress model.
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