Suicide and supervision

Student supervision and co-supervision

Core Competencies in Suicide Risk Assessment and Management: Implications for Supervision

The recent publication of core competencies in suicide risk assessment and management (Suicide Prevention Resource Center, 2006) and the American Psychiatric Association’s (2003) practice guidelines have raised concerns about how best to address these issues in clinical supervision of trainees. This article reviews the identified core competencies, addresses implications for supervision of trai...

Supervision of Supervision

At the very beginning of working with the group as a supervisor – the dynamics of which I will analyse more thoroughly in the section Personal Experience, group members were discussing their personal experience of the supervisee’s position, their past, present and anticipated relationship with the supervisor and their experience of the supervision of the supervisor. Although they broached many ...

PREDISPOSING AND PRECIPITATING RISK FACTORS FOR SUICIDE IDEATIONS AND SUICIDE ATTEMPTS IN YOUNG AND ADOLESCENT GIRLS

 ABSTRACT Background: To investigate the predisposing and precipitating risk factors for suicide ideations and suicide attempts in young and adolescent females, we tried to introduce a holistic model of suicidal behavior in young and adolescent girls. Methods: This study is based on the survey studies and was cross-sectional. Considering high rates of suicide attempts in provinces of Iran, thre...

Comparing the Relationship between Focus of Attention and Attention Bias in Suicide and Non-suicide Attempters

Objective: Suicide rate is unfortunately increasing in recent years and its assessment is a must. Most studies have evaluated different factors like personality, depression, or environment in suicide attempters but cognitive functions have been overlooked in suicide attempters. The current research aimed to evaluate a kind of cognitive function, namely attention in survivors of suicide.  ...