OBJECTIVE Establishing a psychiatric diagnosis and assessing suicidal tendencies is often a challenging task particularly in the early stages of an illness. Cognitive impairments characterize different psychiatric entities, but there is no known specific cognitive deficit profile that could help the clinician in achieving the diagnostic task. This study's aim was to establish a cognitive profil...

BACKGROUND Over the past few decades, concern about suicide by college students has been on the rise worldwide, in general and in China particularly. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of social and psychological factors on the suicidal tendencies of Chinese medical students. FINDINGS Of the 540 students surveyed, 48 had a suicidal tendency to some extent. The high...

INTRODUCTION Suicide is one of the most tragic problems medical schools are facing today. It is an issue that has not escaped medical schools in either developing or developed nations. To combat this trend, medical educators require efficient and effective strategies for the immediate identification of students who are at an elevated risk of harming themselves. MATERIALS AND METHODS National ...

Official statistics on suicides among children and adolescents in West Germany and Japan were used to compare transcultural social and psychiatric data on 108 German and 103 Japanese suicides and attempted suicides. This analysis revealed characteristic differences with respect to the following variables: ratio of attempted and accomplished suicide, age, method, integrating problems at school, ...

There is a long-standing belief that patients with depression and suicidal tendencies are particularly vulnerable to suicide when their depression shows signs of improvement. The authors discuss the clinical challenges of distinguishing real from feigned signs of recovery. Whereas genuine clinical improvement is a process, sudden patient improvement is a suspect event. The authors discuss clini...

A hospitalized patient with depression and suicidal tendencies was referred for occupational therapy. The patient's evaluations while hospitalized indicated a lack of social skills and unrealistic expectations concerning abilities and aspirations. A work evaluation showed high scores in artistic and people-related occupations. Treatment focused on improvement of self-image, social interaction a...

Suicidal Tendency or the intension to kill oneself end one’s life is a catastrophic situation which mostly unknown by any person in victim’s life. Suicide has been an intractable public health problem despite advances diagnosis and treatment of major mental disorders. In many studies it clearly evident that, victims tend themselves either their pain pressure have sense relief that they are not ...