Week 6 Flashcards
What is Suicidality?
An umbrella term and covers suicidal ideation (serious thoughts about taking one’s own life), suicide plans and suicide attempts.
What is Suicidal Ideation?
Having thoughts of harming or killing oneself. Thinking about suicide
What is a Suicide Threat?
A threat that is more serious than casual statement of suicidal intent
What is Parasuicidal Behaviour?
Any non‐fatal, serious, deliberate self‐harm with or without suicide intent
What is Suicide?
A fatal, self-inflicted destructive act with an explicit or inferred intent to die
what are Risk factors associated with Suicide?
Family Factors
Childhood Trauma
Stressful life events
Previous suicide attempts
Postpartum risk
Recent discharge from acute mental health
Pain and Physical illness
Mental Illness
Martial status
Isolation and remoteness
Hopelessness
Deliberate self harm
Co-morbidity
Direct signs of suicide include?
Suicidal communication
Seeking access to a method
Making preparations
Indirect signs of suicide Include?
IS PATH WARM
I = Ideation
S = Substance abuse
P =Purposelessness (loss of purpose/reason for living)
A = Anxiety (worry, agitation, sleep disturbances)
T = Trapped (feeling of being unable to escape situation)
H = Hopelessness
W = Withdrawal (from others)
A = Anger (rage, aggression)
R = Recklessness
M = Mood changes
What do you need to include when assessing risk and urgency of suicide?
The level of distress and/or psychological pain the person is in
What is the persons motivations? what meaning do they attach to suicide
What is their history of suicidal thought and behaviour?
Current suicidal thoughts
Intoxication
Lethality/intent
Presence of a plan
Safety of others
Protective factors
Engagement in assessment
Corroborative accounts
Will asking someone if they have thoughts of suicide put the idea in their head?
No
(True of False) Only people diagnosed with mental disorders are suicidal
False
What is considered an ‘indirect’ warning sign of suicide?
Someone talking about feeling ‘trapped’ or ‘hopeless’ in their life
What is statistically a potential risk factor for suicide?
Someone who has undertaken suicidal behaviour in the past
Someone divorced, widowed or separated
Someone with an experience of trauma
