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Classification of suicidal behavior: a review and step toward integration
1Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry, West Virginia, University Health Sciences Center, Charleston 25326.
Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior
|January 1, 1988
Summary
Understanding suicidal phenomena, including contemplation, attempts, and completion, is crucial. This study reviews and integrates existing categories of suicidal individuals into four key dimensions for better research and practice.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Psychiatry
- Public Health
Background:
- Suicidal phenomena encompass contemplated, attempted, and completed suicide, posing challenges for researchers and practitioners.
- Existing classification systems for suicidal individuals lack consistent agreement.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review theoretical and empirical efforts in defining types of suicidal individuals.
- To integrate existing classifications into higher-order categories for a unified approach.
Main Methods:
- Literature review of theoretical and empirical studies on suicidal phenomena.
- Analysis and synthesis of proposed categorization systems.
- Development of higher-order dimensions for classifying suicidal individuals.
Main Results:
- Identified four key dimensions for categorizing suicidal phenomena: descriptive, situational, psychological/behavioral, and teleological.
- Proposed an integrated framework for understanding different types of suicidal individuals.
Conclusions:
- The proposed four-dimensional framework offers a more cohesive approach to understanding suicidal phenomena.
- Implications for future research and clinical practice in suicide prevention and intervention are discussed.