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Notes the basic services provided by suicide prevention services and research on the evaluation of these services are reviewed whether there is evidence that the services prevent suicide and how the services might evaluate their internal activities.

Notes "in the research phase of the National Suicide Prevention Project, all suicides (n = 1397) in Finland between March 1987 and April 1988 were examined retrospectively using the psychological autopsy method."

States "because adolescents are referred from one clinical setting to another, continuity of care must be one of mental health practitioners' major concerns. Lack of continuity of care places patients at an elevated risk for additional suicide attempts."

Concludes the "suicidal process may emerge and disappear in the lives of young people. Repeated episodes of self-cutting by young men, against a backdrop of substance abuse, relationship difficulties, and mental health problems require further attention."

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Notes "in this review, strategies developed by various countries to halt this trend are compared. Nine out of 15 countries respond to enquiry about the state of development of suicide prevention strategies and programmes."

Originally in German, this study "describes decisive factors of suicide prevention on Psychiatric wards criterias are developed to diagnose the self-states of acute suicidal psychiatric patients," and offers guidelines.

Results of this study "showed that single-car accident drivers were not exposed to a higher overall suicidal risk, though they reported a higher risk on the RFL Survival and Coping Beliefs subscale and often expressed tiredness of being alive."

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Notes "this paper presents the epidemiology of suicide and discusses the known risk factors for suicide within a framework designed to encourage a systematic approach to theory testing and prevention."

Notes "significantly lower rates of suicide attempts and greater knowledge and more adaptive attitudes about depression and suicide were observed among students in the intervention group."

Notes "article describes how Inupiat understand and talk about youth suicide and suicide prevention within public settings."

Notes "this review article outlines the research basis for an effective approach to psychotherapy with suicidal people."

Details "suicidal behavior is generally taken to be symptomatic in nature rather than egosyntonic. However, any behavior which comes to be used as a means of adaptation to the world long enough tends to become ego-syntonic."

Using NVDRS 2004 data, this study finds "suicide prevention efforts must address not only substance abuse and mental health problems in general, but the unique personal, family, and social characteristics of different racial/ethnic groups."

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Reveals "incarcerated juvenile offenders have an estimated suicide risk four times greater than adolescents in the general population."

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Notes "this article reviews the scope of suicide and attempted suicide as public health problems from an international perspective."

Research reveals "a systematic program of contact with persons who are at risk of suicide and who refuse to remain in the health care system appears to exert a significant preventive influence for at least two years."

Concludes "despite the strong association between mental disorders and mors voluntaris, suicidal behaviour attracts little interest among contemporary psychiatrists, as witnessed by the low number of contributions to suicidology journals."

Research reveals "in a majority of industrialized countries, suicide rates rise progressively with age; in all but one, the highest suicide rates occur for men age 75 and older."

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Study reveals "an examination of the experiences of young physicians treating suicidal patients reveals three main themes that were a professional challenge for them: Striving for relatedness, Intervening competently and Being emotionally involved."

Notes this "article provides an overview of the sociocultural and psychosocial features and implications for treatment of prepubertal suicidal children."

Study suggests "it seems likely that children learn suicidal behavior through observation of others in their family and social contexts."

Study concludes "self-directed and externally directed violence, antisocial personality disorder, and substance abuse of relatives of suicidal children should be studied to elucidate the etiology of youth suicidal behavior."

Study reveals "suicide risk significantly correlated with all family variables whereas violence risk correlated with behavioral problems both in oneself and in one's first-degree relatives."

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