Suicide risk is greatly increased in schizophrenia. Our study aim was to investigate interactional factors related to the recognition of suicide risk in patients with schizophrenia.

This case-control study focused on 66 schizophrenia patients who had committed suicide Study methods included in-depth interviews of next of kin and interviews of patients that had been saved from suicide and perfect information and statistics were extracted from patient's files and documents in fatemi hospital and analyzed by chi-square.

Studies show the most prevalence of disease is in male, citizens, single persons, uncaptioned and the average age was in the mid-thirties. Most participants had an under high school diploma, (56/1%). Almost 60/6% of the sample had a history of a previous depression, undifferentiated type of schizophrenia, previous anti socials acts (56/1%) According to the findings most participants (81/8%) had no precedence of being imprisoned. we survey the declared assumptions of the research and study the presence of any relation or lack of it between variable factors

Our findings suggest Prevention of suicide in schizophrenia is likely to result from treatment of affective symptoms, improving adherence to treatment, and maintaining special vigilance in patients with risk factors,

Suicide is a tragic occurrence that is the end choice for attempter suicide, with due attention to our personal society is going to modernization attempt to suicide is increasing, and then we want to study about agents and causes of this tragic event.

The way of work and research was done in the case of descriptive studying. Information and statistics were extracted from files and documents in Fatemi Hospital and Analyzed and studied by Chi-square.

The results of the research that from the patients, 18.42% attempted to suicide or self-mutilation. Studies show that more prevalence of attempt was in,male gender(58.6%) and young peoples (37.1%), citizen(55.7%), schizophrenic patients(31.4%) and single persons (49.3%) and individuals with middle level of education and economic situation(53.1%); and most of the patients were drug abusers (60%). the more stimulant that patients were described was grief and indignation and depression(88.6%). Spring the more season was attempted to suicide(37.1%).

Our findings suggest Prevention of suicide in schizophrenia is likely to result from treatment of affective symptoms, improving adherence to treatment, and maintaining special vigilance in patients with risk factors, These findings reveal that despite recent increases to the study of suicide by social work researchers, they have contributed limited evidenced based knowledge in the last twenty-six years on the treatment or prevention of suicide or suicide-related behaviors. The article outlines the risk factors for suicide and discusses the implications for clinical social work practice and research.

Different types of marital status are associated with elevated/decreased suicidal risk.

The aim of this research was to study marital status change and the effect of its recency in relation to suicidal behaviour.

Suicide victims (1614) in Slovenia and matched controls (4617) were compared for incidence and recency of marital status change during the last five years in their lives.

10.7% of suicide victims have had a marital status change in the last 5 years as compared to 5.6% of the controls. Becoming widowed and getting divorced proved to be a risk factor for suicidal behaviour. 45,7% of all marital status changes in suicide victims occurred in the last year prior to suicide, whereas marital status changes in the control group were equally distributed over the five years. Recency of marital status change significantly affected suicide risk in interaction with age and type of change: The increase in the risk was much higher for recently married than for the recently divorced or widowed people.

Becoming widowed or divorced represents a risk factor for suicidal behaviour. The first year after the change is critical for elevated suicidal risk, in particular for the supposedly positive change of getting married.

Suicide is a complex phenomenon accounting for 1 million deaths per year. This study aims to assess the profiles of those individuals at a higher risk for suicide, which may be of help to clinicians while evaluating patients.

A sample of 30.000 suicides belonging to two age-bands, i.e. 18 to 24 and over-45s, was analysed and compared with respect to the gender, fatality of the act, season, the reason for it, the time and methods employed. Data were provided by ISTAT records and concern completed and attempted suicides in Italy from 2001-2008.

Males are at a higher risk with a higher lethality of the acts in both age bands. The younger age band is at higher risk from March to June and in January especially in the evening, whereas the older age-band from March to June especially in the morning with a higher fatality rate. Unknown reasons are the most common cause for suicide followed by mental illnesses in both age-bands. Hanging is the most common method, followed by jumping from high places in both age-bands. Charcoal - intoxication is more common in the young age-band, whereas fire-arms and drowning in the over-45 age-band.

Although the two identified profiles are quite general, they can be an adequate basis for public health officials and mental health professionals to early identify those individuals at a higher risk for suicide. Further studies are needed for a better definition of the profiles.

Suicide is a major public health problem, one of the leading causes of death and one of the first causes of years of life lost. It is a voluntary act that can be carried out by men and women, children and adults, rich and poor, people of every race and religion.

The aim of this text is to outline the most popular suicides and briefly discuss the representation of suicide in art. Painters such as Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Jackson Pollock, musicians as Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, the actresses Lupe Vélez, Carole Landis, Pier Angeli, Capucine, Marylin Monroe, Lucy Gordon and the actors Heath Ledger and Freddie Prinze decided the end of their lives in different ways and at different stages.

In the literary field, we find the world renowned suicides of Socrates, Seneca and Caton. Other famous and more recent suicidal writers are Ernest Hemingway, Dylan Thomas, Virginia Woolf, Yukio Mishima, Alfonsina Stormi and Cesare Pavese among others.

Suicide has been represented in several plays and operas, not only people of flesh and blood kill themselves but also fictional characters. the love-death of Liu in Turandot and Tosca in the opera of the same name Are noteworthy, both were composed by Giacomo Puccini. In Hamlet, tragedy written by William Shakespeare, is Ophelia who dies drowning at the sea.

This paper describes the findings from cases of Iranian children between the age of 6-15 who were attempted suicide.

This retrospective study was carried out using data from 292 cases (239 girls and 53 boys) aged 6-15 who attempted suicide and were referred to the Loghman Hakim Medical Centre poison Centre in Tehran, Iran between 2005 and 2008. The Children Suicide Questionnaire was applied.

The study showed that the percentage of girls who attempted suicide was 81.8% against 12.2% for boys. Most of them attempted suicide between the age of12-14 years. Approximately half (43%) of the children came from a poor socio-economic background, and 95% of suicide attempts took place in the home, and 55.5% between 6.00pm and 12.00 pm. 41% of the respondents reported cases of mental illness in their family. The study also showed that41.6% of the children had attempted suicide before, and 36.6% of them attempted suicide after a family argument.. Depression (28%) and epilepsy(27%) were the most cited cases of personal problems. The means used were antiepileptic drugs (23%), benzodiazepine (23%), and antidepressants (20%).

This study suggests the collaboration between paediatricians, psychiatrists and psychologists are necessary.

To implement regional community-based four-level programmes with the aim of improving the care of depressed patients and to reduce suicidality in different European countries.

The interventions took place on four different levels complementary to each other: (1) educating general practitioners in recognizing and treating depression, (2) raising public awareness for depression (3) training community facilitators (such as priests, social workers, or teachers) about depression, and (4) offering support to high risk groups. In two project phases 17 EAAD partners a) established first a local Alliance Against Depression with the described 4-level approach and then b) started to extend the activities to other regions in the respective countries.

The EAAD strategy and actions largely base on the results and experiences from the “Nuremberg Alliance Against Depression” that showed a significant reduction (−24%) of suicidal acts. Evaluation within EAAD showed that EAAD material can be readily adapted to different cultures. The strong bottom-up approach helps community members to identify with the local alliance against depression and this boosts motivation and civil commitment as well as self-help. EAAD intervention is also well accepted by the partners as well as the public which can be shown in positive echoes from the media and in ongoing requests for being supported by EAAD in implementing their own local alliance against depression.

EAAD's 4-level approach reduces suicidal acts and can be implemented across a range of different countries (with different health care systems) with and within different local contexts.

women depressive patients constitutes a siezable no. in a rural psyciatry clinic in a Disrtrict HQTRs towen of Midnapore 126 k.m away from the state capital of Kolkata.

Among 156 depressed patients inthe age group of 21-55 with a median age of 33 years only a few seldom speaks of low spirit or lack of pleasure.Different somatic pains & other somatic complaints remain their principal presenting symptoms.

Here is an enlisting of such varried somatic complaints in depressed women.

Awareness of such chronic bodily complaint as the presenting feature will remind us of depression in women.

156 women in the said 21-55 years age group those were diagonosed as MDD or depressive disorder as per DSM-4 criteria were taken for their symptoms analysis.There were 118 married, 18 unmarried &12 widows &8 separated or divorcedwomen. They were illetarate 23,junior scool 98,Higschool 14,graduate 22,posgraduate &above7.Married women mostly have children ranging from 1-6 except 3infertile women & one issue mother was abundant(>25%).

Theiremost common chief presenting complaint were headpain, head discomfort &burning(>80%), neckpain, pain in lower extremeties(30%), in joints,in genital areas, rectal pain,hyperacidity, dyspepsia, hearburn,chestpain & discomfort,throat trouble,buning pain over the skin,with biological symptoms like sleep disturbance,lossof appetite, diminished libido,loss of interest to all activities, not feeling well at arousal to sadness to crying to suicidal ideas(10%),& attempt in 3 cases.

Somatic pain & other muliple aches & pains are one of the most commonest feature to complain about in women masking the depressive illnes in the underneath.

Women's mental health in a devoloping & poor economicaly rescourced country like India is often neglected, lately diagonosed & treated,but are numerous & of various kind.

In the week ending 14th June 2009, 100 women's those were treated in a rural clinic, 75 k.m off from the city of Kolkata were analysed here to get a current trends of patterns of disorders those are prevalant in women in 2009.

To feel the status of women's mental health in the community and to formulate necessary recommendations.

Total no. of women cases attended in a busy Clinic in Tamluk, near calcutta were taken.

100 women cases age ranging from 9-79 were analysed here as to their diagnostic formulation as per WHO, ICD-10 criteria.

Mean age of the patient attended was44 and mode was 35yrs.

In the younger age group 9-17 years group there were 15 cases mostly Mental retardation with behavior disorders & examination & study related Anxiety disorders with head pain &diff pain symptoms.Mental retardation are mild in nature & caused by Home delivery &prolonged delivery in all the cases, except one who was put on I.V Synthocinonin drip for long time instead of a c.s section in time.

Inthe middle group 18-45 years,Depressive Disorders, Bipolar disorders, Hysteria, Anxiety disorders, Schizophrenia &OCD are main entities.

Inthe late age group MDD, Senile dementia with & Delutional disorders are common.

In a clinic based study womenn's mental disorders are plenty.

This is an important arena of early intervention.

The study that is presented in this article has as its main objectives the analysis of the way some psychological and social (psycho-social) variables and in conjugal context fore see the psychological well-being of the women with breast cancer; and to know the differences between the groups which are susceptible of being formed with the study population.

This transversal study, of quantitative nature, was applied to a sample of 229 women, associated to the São Teotónio Hospital in Viseu and to the “Movimento Vencer e Viver” (Winning and Living Movement) of the Portuguese League against Cancer.

The results show that the psycho-social variables predict significantly and additionally, the psychological well-being of the women with breast cancer.The psycho-social variable that shows potential in the psychological well-being is the corporal image and the variable in the conjugal context that shows potential in the psychological well-being is the satisfaction with the conjugal relationship.

We are aware that scientific research in psycho-oncology almost never reflect a definitive answer to the problems, however, and it gives them an incentive to continue to study the questions. The realization of this study led to a recognition of the psychological well-being as a fundamental dimension of the experience of women with breast cancer, suggesting the urgent need to implement an integrated and multidisciplinary, suitable for the promotion of that well-being.

Emotions expressed by the group of mistreated women compared to those of a control group, are in a remarkable way characterized by gloominess and mournfulness and are connected to topics such as destruction, fear and death.

1. 1. Diagnosis and a degree of intensification of PTSD were based on C.G. Watson's at al. PTSD-Interview.

2. 2. Semi-structured interview was completed by 104 women to assess risk factors of PTSD (social, demographic and clinic).

The examined group consisted of 104 women at the age between 18 and 68 years, the average age 40,8 years; dwelling in the shelters for single mothers and domestic violence victims and out-patients of psychiatric ambulatory.

75,6% of women who are victims of interpersonal violence had significant, very significant or extreme increase of occurrence of PTSD symptoms. PTSD severity was associated with lower level of education and sexual violence.

Victims of interpersonal violence are inherently at risk of PTSD. Lower level of education and sexual type of interpersonal violence are risk factors of severity PTSD.

Perinatal depression is a particolar challenge to clinicians, and its prevalence estimates are difficult to compare across studies. Furthermore,there are no studies that systematically assessed the incidence of perinatal depression. The aim of this study is to estimate prevalence, incidence, recurrence and new onset of DSM IV minor and major depression (mMD) in an unselected population of pregnant women.

1066 pregnant women were recruited at third month of pregnancy (T0), and minor/major depression (mMD) was assessed by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM IV disorders (SCID I). The SCID I was administered at baseline evaluation (T0), the Edimburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) was administered at third, 6th (T1), 8th (T2) month of pregnancy, and the SCID I Mood module was administered to confirme an eventual DSM-IV minor or major depression diagnosis when the EPDS score was≥13.

The pregnancy period prevalence of mMD was 12,4%.The point prevalence of mMD decreased from 8,6% at the 3rd month of pregnancy to 1,7% at the 8th month of pregnancy.The cumulative incidence of mMD was 2,2%. The weighted incidence of new onsets during pregnancy was 1,6%. The weighted percentage of recurrences during pregnancy was 3,7%.

The decline in the point prevalence during the second and third trimester of pregnancy found in our study may be attributed to psychological counselling and/or pharmacological treatment.Further studies about new onsets of depression during pregnancy are highly important in order to improve clinical prediction of risk in any individual woman.

The future of a society depends on children's health. Children's growth and health is directly influenced with mother's health. This study has targeted on defining and comparison of maternal health of mother's with low birth and premature with the one of mothers with term infants.

This descriptive analytic study was carried out on 200 mothers with low birth and premature infants selected by target focused sampling. The date we are collated related to maternal health concerning weight, age, smoking, taken drugs pre delivery weight, times of pregnancy, anxiety due to crisis and maternal health care.

The findings related to frequency distribution of maternal health of mothers with low birth and premature infants compared with the ones with term infants showed that there was a significant difference between mothers with low birth and premature infants in age group of 15 to 19 years of age and mothers with term infants aged between 20 to 24 years.

The findings related to mothers weigh before pregnancy showed that there was not a significant difference between most of the mothers with low birth and premature infants aged between 45 to 54weight years and mothers with term infants of birth than105kg (P< 0/01,). Regarding maternal health in both groups there was a significant difference between taken drugs and duration and dosage, maternal health and anxiety and restlessness.

Mothers play a major role in care of children and their own mental health influences their children physical and mental health.

Dissociative fugue is one or more episodes of amnesia. It is a rare condition in which a person suddenly, without planning or warning, travels from home or work and leave behind past life and identity.The aim is to present a patient with such disorder.

In this paper is present the case of Joka K, from M.Grad. She is married, mother of two child. She lives in joint household with a father in law who is authoritative person. Her brother-in-law lives in the ground floor. Her housband, is the youngest of eight children. Systemic family therapy was aplied and the plan of work was produced- 1. Moral and ethical norms in family 2.Loyalitiy to the family of origin 3.Incomplete grieving time following the death of mother and mother-in-law. 4.Expectations in terms of marriage 5.Different cultural views, traditions and family miths.6. Historicaly stipulated second line changes occuring one after another, with the absence of plato period.

The first sessions were attended by J., S. and J.s father, where the point of work was loss and loyality to the family origin. Differencies in cultural views between the families of origin examined in genogram session. Next sessions constitute an expansion of the genogramic session where the accent was placed on the family life cycle and historical sequence of second-line changes.

Implementation of the systemic family therapy, improved communication, established dialogs without breaking up the relation with the family of origin.

In a previous study women with long-term sequalae of child sexual abuse (CSA) were randomly assigned to analytic (Group A) or systemic group psychotherapy (Group S). Pre-post-analysis indicated that both therapies led to significant improvement, but overall Group S had significantly better outcome than Group A. As gains tended to rise in Group A during follow-up and decline in Group S, no statistically significant difference was detected in gains between the two treatment modalities after one year.

This study investigates if gains are maintained five year following termination, and if the groups differ in gains.

106 women started on allocated intervention. Psychological distress (GSI from SCL-90R), psycho-social functioning (GAF), and global life quality (GLQ), were assessed before and after treatment and one and five years following termination.

86 patients (81%) completed group therapy, 68 (64%) completed the one-year follow-up and 64 (60%) the five-year follow-up. At five year follow-up ANOVA was performed using treatment group as a between factor and the four time points as repeated measures. Intention to treat analysis demonstrated that improvement were significant on all measures (P < 0.000). Independent samples t-test on gains was NS for all measures.

Women with a history of CSA who were treated with Group A or Group S treatment maintained statistical significant improvement on GSI, GAF and GLQ five years post-treatment. No significant difference was found in gains between groups.

Depression is a global public health problem with highest rates in women in low income countries including Pakistan. There are no treatment trials from such countries comparing the efficacy of antidepressant treatment with a group psychological intervention.

We conducted a preliminary RCT in an urban primary care clinic in Karachi, Pakistan. Consecutive eligible women scoring > 12 on the CIS-R and > 18 on HDRS (n=66) were randomly assigned to antidepressant or group psychosocial treatment. The primary outcome measure was HDRS score; secondary outcome measures were disability and quality of life.

96% patients were assessed at 3 & 6 months after baseline. At 6 months response (50% reduction of HDRS score) occurred in 20 (60.6%) and 22(66.7%) of the psychosocial and antidepressant groups respectively. There was also significant reduction in disability and improvement in health related quality of life in both groups.

Low costs antidepressants and group psychosocial treatment on the principles of CBT merit further assessment as primary treatments for depression in low income countries.

This study was designed to provide information on prevalence of premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder in Greek nursery students.

Premenstrual symptoms of 125 students (18-22 years old) were assessed by the Premenstrual Symptoms Screening Tool (PSST). The PSST reflects and translates categorical DSM-IV criteria into a rating scale with degrees of severity. The premenstrual symptoms were examined over the course of one menstrual cycle.

The diagnosis of premenstrual syndrome was confirmed in 26 of 101 women (25.7%) who completed the questionnaire. Nine subjects (8.9%) met criteria for premenstrual dysphoric disorder.

This study indicates a significant prevalence of premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder in Greek nursery students. Given the associated impairment in social and occupational functioning seen in premenstrual disorders, these prevalence data provide a strong rationale for enhanced recognition and treatment of the disorders.