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Book

Rethinking suicide : why prevention fails, and how we can do better

Call Number

  • 362.28 B9151 (OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Physical Description

224 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Summary

"When I joined the Air Force in 2005, hostilities in Iraq were escalating, resulting in more frequent and longer deployments for just about everyone serving in the military, including psychologists. Soon thereafter, the suicide rate among military personnel also started to rise, especially in the Army and Marine Corps. During the first few years of that upward trend, the general sense was that the military was just having a few "bad years." In 2008, however, the age- and gender-adjusted Army and Marine suicide rates surpassed the U.S. general population rate. By the time I deployed to Iraq in February 2009, the military suicide rate had been rising steadily for three consecutive years; the initial assumption that we were simply experiencing a few bad years had dissolved, and an uncomfortable recognition that we had a clear problem on our hands had taken hold"--

Contents

  • On the merits of productive stupidity
  • The 90% statistic
  • Balance beams and suicide-risk screening
  • Performance escapes and catastrophes
  • Marshmallows and braking systems
  • Handwashing and changing the status Quo
  • Seat belts and second chances
  • Creating lives worth living.

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