Compares and contrasts the contributions of various prevention models toward the theoretical reduction of suicide in the general population, and explores conceptual frameworks used to understand population-level risk factors. First-order and second-order targets of change in prevention efforts are defined and examples provided. (JPS)

Suicide prevention initiatives at the national level are most likely to impact the largest numbers of citizens. Canada lays some claim for recognition in the general field of suicide prevention as a result of a 1974 federal document focusing on health promotion. The authors discuss innovations and problems occurring in the various Canadian…

Integrates recent concepts from the family therapy literature into three views: family as background, family as context, and family as a unit. Reviews and categorizes the family crisis intervention literature (56 publications) according to these three views. Examines clarity in how "family" is viewed and consistency between theory and practice.…

Focuses on area of crisis-art expressions. Offers selection of drawings done by children and adults after the Los Angeles riots that followed the court decision concerning the police handling of the Rodney King case. Brief commentaries on the drawings are included by the therapists who worked with the clients. (NB)

Provides guidelines from social work perspective on how social workers and health care professionals can provide bereavement counseling for families whose relatives have died in emergency room. Discusses providing family with privacy and accessibility; keeping family informed; using understandable terminology; speaking directly about death;…

Between February 7 and February 24, 2002, Utah and Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Olympics. Due to the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the emotional fallout that resulted, it was recommended that the Utah Psychological Association and Utah Red Cross plan for such an occurrence and organize a coordinated Disaster Mental Health…

Presents two case vignettes that pose issues of concern for suicide postvention, with particular relevance to the development of school-based crisis intervention response programs. Two commentaries follow the vignettes. (Author/NB)

Focusing on emerging models of population-level risk reduction, the authors discuss the essential ingredients for successful suicide prevention programs: comprehensiveness, fidelity, and intensity. Issues of feasibility, access, and effectiveness are discussed. The authors argue for nesting suicide prevention programs within existing public health…

Recounts how the students and faculty at the University of Wyoming responded to the murder of a gay student. Offers postcrisis critique about the elements of the Crisis Intervention Team's response that were identified as helpful: involvement of the college president, flexibility and responsiveness of the study activities staff, discussion forums…

Staff of the Sexual Abuse Treatment Program of the Baltimore City Department of Social Services concluded that the objective of family reconstitution was not appropriate to the entire client population being served. Family characteristics are reported that present obstacles to the goal of reunification of sexually abusive families. (Author/RH)

This paper presents a model which integrates a wide range of possible interventions using family treatment, and provides a method of differential decision making with regard to the intervention to be used in a given case. This model uses an ecological perspective. (Author)

This article comments on Ralph Gardner's article (EC 230191) criticizing life space interviewing (LSI). The author offers documented evidence of effectiveness, claims LSI is designed solely for reactive (not proactive) conditions, and argues that it does not subtract from academic learning time and does not increase inappropriate behavior by…

This article criticizes the technique of life space interviewing (LSI) as supported in EC 230192. The body of supportive empirical evidence for LSI's effectiveness is discussed and considered inadequate, and a call is made for further empirical research. (PB)

Presents Life Space Interview, effective intervention strategy for use during crisis work with troubled students, as it was applied to case of Andy, 14-year-old black male student who had been taunting low-functioning deaf student. Describes Andy's background, the incident itself, and the Life Space Interview. Concludes with instructional comments…

Offers specialists in group work with incest survivors a developmental perspective. Links suggestions for therapy to developmental issues. (Author/ABB)