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Cognitive therapy for the suicidal patient: a case study
1College of Health and Nursing Science, University of Delaware, USA. beckinst@gim.net
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
|March 17, 1999
Abstract
Topic:
The use of cognitive therapy to treat a suicidal patient.
Purpose:
To demonstrate through the use of a case study, the cognitive therapy method in treating a suicidal patient.
Source:
The author's own clinical work.
Conclusion:
Suicidal people often demonstrate perfectionism, social sensitivity, difficulty problem solving, and hopelessness. Cognitive therapy addresses these problems by helping patients plan activities, track destructive thinking and its impact on feelings and behaviors, and substitute constructive thinking, thus decreasing hopelessness.