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Conner, Kenneth R.; Beautrais, Annette L.; Brent, David A.; Conwell, Yeates; Phillips, Michael R.; Schneider, Barbara – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2012
The psychological autopsy (PA) is a systematic method of assessing the psychological and contextual circumstances preceding suicide. The method requires interviews with one or more proxy respondents (i.e., informants) of suicide decedents. Procedural challenges that need to be addressed to conduct PA interviews are described in this article and…
Descriptors: Suicide, Psychological Evaluation, Investigations, Interviews
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Conner, Kenneth R.; Beautrais, Annette L.; Brent, David A.; Conwell, Yeates; Phillips, Michael R.; Schneider, Barbara – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2011
The psychological autopsy (PA) is a systematic method to understand the psychological and contextual circumstances preceding suicide. The method requires interviews with one or more proxy respondents (i.e., informants) of decedents. The methodological challenges that need to be addressed when determining the content of these research interviews…
Descriptors: Suicide, Psychological Evaluation, Investigations, Interviews
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Pinto, Aureen; Whisman, Mark A.; Conwell, Yeates – Journal of Adolescence, 1998
The psychometric properties and validity of the Reasons for Living (RFL) Inventory were examined among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents (N=253) identified as suicide ideators, suicide attempters, and psychiatric controls. Factor analysis provided support for RFL for clinical and research assessment while producing slightly different…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Clinical Diagnosis, Mental Disorders