Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Forensic psychology:
- Part I Psychological underpinnings
- Part II Assessments
- 2.1 Child victims of sexual abuse
- 2.2 Credibility
- 2.3 Crime pattern analysis
- 2.4 Evaluating violence risk in young people
- 2.5 Eyewitness testimony
- 2.6 False memory
- 2.7 Intellectual disabilities and offending
- 2.8 Interrogative suggestibility and false confessions
- 2.9 Investigative interviewing
- 2.10 Mental health
- 2.11 Mentally disordered offenders
- 2.12 Memory
- 2.13 Offender profiling
- 2.14 Parenting capacity and conduct
- 2.15 Parole decision making
- 2.16 Personality and crime
- 2.17 Personality disorder classification in forensic settings
- 2.18 Polygraphy
- 2.19 Post-traumatic stress disorder
- 2.20 Psychopathy
- 2.21 Risk and dangerousness in adults
- 2.22 Sexual offender assessment
- 2.23 Statement validity analysis
- 2.24 Suicide risk in adolescents and adults
- 2.25 Vulnerable adults’ capacity
- Part III Interventions
- Part IV Psychology and criminal behaviour
- Part V Psychology and civil law
- Part VI Special topics
- Part VII Professional practice
- Part VIII Research practice
- Author index
- Subject index
2.24 - Suicide risk in adolescents and adults
from Part II - Assessments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Forensic psychology:
- Part I Psychological underpinnings
- Part II Assessments
- 2.1 Child victims of sexual abuse
- 2.2 Credibility
- 2.3 Crime pattern analysis
- 2.4 Evaluating violence risk in young people
- 2.5 Eyewitness testimony
- 2.6 False memory
- 2.7 Intellectual disabilities and offending
- 2.8 Interrogative suggestibility and false confessions
- 2.9 Investigative interviewing
- 2.10 Mental health
- 2.11 Mentally disordered offenders
- 2.12 Memory
- 2.13 Offender profiling
- 2.14 Parenting capacity and conduct
- 2.15 Parole decision making
- 2.16 Personality and crime
- 2.17 Personality disorder classification in forensic settings
- 2.18 Polygraphy
- 2.19 Post-traumatic stress disorder
- 2.20 Psychopathy
- 2.21 Risk and dangerousness in adults
- 2.22 Sexual offender assessment
- 2.23 Statement validity analysis
- 2.24 Suicide risk in adolescents and adults
- 2.25 Vulnerable adults’ capacity
- Part III Interventions
- Part IV Psychology and criminal behaviour
- Part V Psychology and civil law
- Part VI Special topics
- Part VII Professional practice
- Part VIII Research practice
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
In the United States over 30,000 people commit suicide each year. The two age groups of primary concern are young adults between the ages of 19 and 25, and those over the age of 65 years. Because suicide is an emotionally charged, highly stigmatized event there may be an inherent unwillingness in the families of the deceased to acknowledge it as such. Risk factors for suicide vary according to gender, age, culture and other factors. Some risk factors are specific to adolescents. Suicide is not a single behaviour, and has many determinants and complexities. It is believed that the greater the number of risk factors present, the higher the potential for suicide. The diagnosis and treatment of individuals at high risk of suicide would be greatly improved if clinicians and educators were aware of relevant risk factors that predispose and precipitate suicidal behaviour.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology , pp. 327 - 334Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010