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The type of suicide involving a person who ends his or her life for the greater good is known as |
| | A) | fatalistic suicide. |
| | B) | altruistic suicide. |
| | C) | anomic suicide. |
| | D) | chronic suicide. |
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According to statistics, about how many people end their lives by suicide each year in the United States? |
| | A) | 10,000 |
| | B) | 20,000 |
| | C) | 30,000 |
| | D) | 40,000 |
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Which of the following is a method of assessing a person's state of mind and intentions prior to death? |
| | A) | Anomic investigation |
| | B) | Psychological autopsy |
| | C) | Physical autopsy |
| | D) | Investigative analysis |
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The sociological model of suicide focuses on the relationship between |
| | A) | parents and children. |
| | B) | children and teachers. |
| | C) | individuals and society. |
| | D) | an individual's mental and emotional life. |
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According to the sociological model, anomic suicide is associated with |
| | A) | lack of freedom and absence of choice. |
| | B) | sudden change, trauma, or catastrophe. |
| | C) | detachment from social life. |
| | D) | excessive social regulation. |
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Which type of suicide is characteristic of people who are disenfranchised or who live at the fringes of society? |
| | A) | Altruistic |
| | B) | Anomic |
| | C) | Desocialistic |
| | D) | Egoistic |
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In India, the custom that called for a widow to throw herself upon her husband's cremation pyre is known as |
| | A) | seppuku |
| | B) | hara-kiri |
| | C) | kamikaze |
| | D) | suttee |
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In what city did the largest mass suicide in history occur? |
| | A) | Rancho Santa Fe, California |
| | B) | Waco, Texas |
| | C) | Jonestown, Guyana |
| | D) | Tokyo, Japan |
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Considering the role of aggression in the psychodynamic model of suicide, suicide can be described as |
| | A) | murder without the consequences. |
| | B) | murder without aggression. |
| | C) | murder in the 360th degree |
| | D) | murder in the 180th degree. |
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In Edwin Shneidman's use of the term psychache, what is he referring to? |
| | A) | A person contemplating suicide is likely to harbor simultaneously a wish to live and a wish to die. |
| | B) | Intolerable and unbearable pain related to blocked needs, of whatever kind. |
| | C) | Strong, unconscious hostility combined with a lack of capacity to love others. |
| | D) | Suicidal events that involve both the victim and a significant other in some way. |
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Which of the following best fits into the category of "individual meanings" of suicide? |
| | A) | Suicide is criminal |
| | B) | Suicide is the Great Death |
| | C) | Suicide is sinful |
| | D) | Suicide is reunion with a lost loved one |
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Which of the following types of suicide best describes individuals who threaten suicide but do not wish to actually kill themselves? |
| | A) | Suicide as escape |
| | B) | Psychotic suicide |
| | C) | Chronic suicide |
| | D) | Cry for help |
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Within the "intentioned death" category of death-related behaviors, a death seeker is someone who |
| | A) | expects to die in the near future and want to choose the time and circumstances of death. |
| | B) | believes that death ends only physical existence and that the person continues to exist in another manner. |
| | C) | wishes to end consciousness and commits the suicidal act in such a way that rescue is unlikely. |
| | D) | gambles with death. |
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Within the "subintentioned death" category of death-related behavior, a death facilitator is someone who |
| | A) | gives little resistance to death, making it easy for death to occur. |
| | B) | does not consciously wish to die, but lives on the brink by taking drugs in such ways that he or she may become comatose or die with little concern. |
| | C) | has a great fear of death and plays a subintentional role in his or her death. |
| | D) | expedites his or her death by substance abuse or failing to safeguard well-being. |
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Which of the following statements best describes unintentioned death? |
| | A) | Death resulting from a person's patterns of management or style of living, although death is not the conscious, direct aim of the person's actions. |
| | B) | Death resulting from the individual's direct, conscious behavior to bring it about. |
| | C) | Death in which the decedent plays no significant causative role. |
| | D) | Death resulting from being phobic toward death and fighting against it |
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Which of the following are risk factors that influence suicidal behavior? |
| | A) | Culture |
| | B) | Personality |
| | C) | Individual situation |
| | D) | All of the above. |
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Social disruption, family problems, and substance abuse are all factors in suicidal behavior of which of the following age groups? |
| | A) | Childhood |
| | B) | Adolescence and young adulthood |
| | C) | Middle adulthood |
| | D) | Late adulthood |
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A person who engages in suicidal behavior to avoid being a burden to others is associated mainly with which of the following age groups? |
| | A) | Young adulthood |
| | B) | Late adulthood |
| | C) | Childhood |
| | D) | Middle adulthood |
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Which of the following categories best describes community programs that emphasize short-term care and treatment of persons who are actively experiencing a suicidal crisis? |
| | A) | Suicide prevention programs |
| | B) | Suicide intervention programs |
| | C) | Suicide postvention programs |
| | D) | All of the above |
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If a person says, "A life without love is a life without meaning," in which of the following ways is suicidal intent being communicated? |
| | A) | Verbal direct |
| | B) | Verbal indirect |
| | C) | Behavioral direct |
| | D) | Behavioral indirect |
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