INTERVENTIONS

 

 

 

 

SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS:

Ø In the United States, the 2012 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention promotes several specific suicide prevention efforts, including:
Ø Promote community-based suicide prevention programs.
Ø Screen and mitigate risky behaviors through psychological resilience programs that promote optimism and connection.
Ø Education about suicide, including risk factors, warning signs, stigma and availability of support through social campaigns.
Ø Improve the effectiveness of health and social services in caring for people in need. For example, sponsored training for support professionals, improved access to community ties, employment of crisis consultation organizations, etc.
Ø Reducing domestic violence and substance abuse through legal and empowerment measures is a long-term strategy.
Ø Limit access to convenient means of suicide and self-harm. B. Poisons, Poisons, Handguns.
Ø Reduced dosage of packs containing non-prescription drugs.
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Ø School-based programs to promote and improve skills.
Ø Intervention and use of ethical surveillance systems for high-risk groups.
Ø Improve reporting and portrayal of negative behavior, suicidal behavior, mental illness and substance abuse in the entertainment and news media.
Ø Research on protective factors and development of effective clinical and professional practices.

MEDIA GUIDELINES:

Ø Recommendations for media coverage of suicide include avoiding sensationalizing the event or attributing it to a single cause. We also encourage media messages to include a suicide prevention message, such as a story of hope or links to additional resources. Be careful if the deceased is famous. Method or location specific is not recommended.
Ø However, there is little evidence of the benefits of providing resources to those seeking help, and evidence of media policy is generally mixed at best.
Ø Television programs and the news media associate suicide with negative consequences such as distress for suicide attempters and their survivors, and most people choose to do something other than suicide to solve their problems, and they often make no mention of suicide. It also helps prevent suicide by telling people to avoid Prevent the suicide epidemic and avoid portraying authorities and the sympathetic public as advocates for suicidal rationality.

MEDICATIONS:

Ø The drug lithium can help reduce the risk of suicide in certain situations.
Ø It is particularly effective in reducing the risk of suicide in patients with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder.
Ø Some antidepressants may increase suicidal ideation in some patients under certain conditions.

COUNSELING:

Ø There are some talking therapies that reduce suicidal ideation and behavior, such as dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).
Cognitive-behavioural therapy for suicide prevention (CBT-SP) is a type of DBT suitable for adolescents who are at high risk of repeated suicide attempts. Brief intervention and contact techniques developed by the World Health Organization have also proven their worth.
Ø The World Health Organization recommends “making certain skills available in the education system to prevent bullying and violence in and out of school”.

COPING PLANS:

Ø Coping plans are strengths-based interventions designed to meet the needs of people seeking help, including those experiencing suicidal ideation. By addressing why someone is seeking help, risk assessment and management understands what that person needs, while needs analysis focuses on each person's unique needs. Coping planning approaches to suicide prevention are based on health-oriented coping theory. Coping has been normalized as the normal and universal human response to unpleasant emotions, and interventions range from low-intensity support (such as self-sedation) to high-intensity support (such as professional assistance). considered a significant change. Coping planning supports those in need and provides a sense of belonging and resilience in disease management. A proactive coping plan approach overcomes the implications of cynical process theory. [Biopsychosocial] strategies that train people in healthy coping techniques improve emotional regulation and reduce memories of unpleasant emotions. Appropriate coping plans strategically reduce human inadvertent blindness while increasing resilience and regulation.

STRATEGIES:

Ø The traditional approach has been to identify the risk factors that increase suicide or self-harm, though meta-analysis studies suggest that suicide risk assessment might not be useful and recommend immediate hospitalization of the person with suicidal feelings as the healthy choice. In 2001, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, published the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, establishing a framework for suicide prevention in the U.S. The document, and its 2012 revision, calls for a public health approach to suicide prevention, focusing on identifying patterns of suicide and suicidal ideation throughout a group or population (as opposed to exploring the history and health conditions that could lead to suicide in a single individual). The ability to recognize warning signs of suicide allows individuals who may be concerned about someone they know to direct them to help.
Ø Suicide gesture and suicidal desire (a vague wish for death without any actual intent to kill oneself) are potentially self-injurious behaviour’s that a person may use to attain some other ends, like to seek help, punish others, or to receive attention. This behaviour has the potential to aid an individual's capability for suicide and can be considered as a suicide warning when the person shows intent through verbal and behavioural signs.

SPECIFIC STRATEGIES:

Ø Suicide prevention strategies focus on reducing risk factors and strategic interventions to reduce risk levels. Individual-specific risk and protective factors can be assessed by a licensed psychologist.
Ø Some of the specific strategies used to deal with are:
Ø Crisis Intervention.
Ø Structured counseling and psychotherapy.
Ø Hospitalization of persons with little willingness to help or requiring monitoring and treatment of secondary symptoms.
Ø Supportive care, including access to substance abuse treatment, psychiatric drugs, family psychoeducation, emergency departments, and emergency services such as suicide prevention hotlines.
Ø Restrict access to lethal suicide drugs through policies and legislation.
Ø Create and use crisis cards. The Crisis Card is an easy-to-read, concise chart that describes a list of activities to follow during a crisis until a positive behavioral response is established in the personality.
Ø Person-centred life skills training. For example, problem solving.
Ø Registration in support groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous, suicide bereavement support groups, and religious groups with flow rituals
Ø Recreational therapies that improve mood.
Ø Motivation for self-care activities such as exercise and meditative relaxation.
Ø The most successful or evidence-based psychotherapy is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), which has been shown to help reduce suicide attempts and reduce hospitalizations for suicidal ideation. ) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). , apparently improved the problem. resolution and coping skills