Suicide prevention contract

Suicide

Social aspects

* Altruistic
* Copycat
* Epidemic
* Legislation
* Philosophy
* Religious views
* Right to die
* Voluntary euthanasia

Crisis

* Assessment of risk
* Crisis hotline (list)
* Intervention
* Prevention
* Suicide watch

Types

* Assisted
* Bullying and suicide (list)
* Copycat
* Familicide
* Forced
* Honor
* Mass
* Murder–suicide
* Prisoner suicide
* Pact
* Internet
* Prayopavesa
* Sallekhana
* Sati
* Self-sacrifice
* Senicide
* Seppuku
* Sokushinbutsu
* Suicide attack
* Vatakkiruttal

Epidemiology

* Gender differences
* Methods
* Rate by country
* Youth suicide
* among LGBT youth

History

* List of suicides
* Suicide in antiquity
* List of suicides in the 21st century

In warfare

* Banzai charge
* Kamikaze
* Suicide mission

Related phenomena

* Suicide attempt
* Locations
* Ideation
* Major depressive disorder
* Non-suicidal self-injury
* Suicide note
* Suicide terminology

By country

* Rate by country
* Australia
* Bangladesh
* Cameroon
* Canada
* China
* France
* Greenland
* India
* Iran
* Ireland
* Japan
* Lithuania
* Nepal
* Pakistan
* Romania
* Russia
* Singapore
* South Korea
* Spain
* Sri Lanka
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom
* United States

Organizations

* Compassion & Choices
* Death with Dignity National Center
* Dignitas
* Exit International
* Final Exit Network
* Hemlock Society

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A suicide prevention contract is a contract that contains an agreement not to commit suicide. It was historically used by health professionals dealing with depressive clients.[1] Typically, the client was asked to agree to talk with the professional prior to carrying out any decision to commit suicide. Suicide prevention contracts have been shown not to be effective and have risk of harm.[2] Suicide prevention contracts were once a "widely used but overvalued clinical and risk-management technique."[3] Indeed, it has been argued that such contracts "may in fact increase danger by providing psychiatrists with a false sense of security, thus decreasing their clinical vigilance."[4] It has also been argued that such contracts can anger or inhibit the client and introduce coercion into therapy.[5]

## See also[edit]

* Suicide pact
* Suicide prevention

## References[edit]

1. ^ Simon, R. I. (1999), "The suicide prevention contract: clinical, legal, and risk management issues", Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online, J Am Acad Psychiatry Law, 27 (3): 445–450
2. ^ Ng, C. W. M., How, C. H., & Ng, Y. P. (2017). Depression in primary care: assessing suicide risk. Singapore Medical Journal, 58(2), 72–77. http://doi.org/10.11622/smedj.2017006
3. ^ MC Miller; DG Jacobs (1998), "Talisman or Taboo: The Controversy of the Suicide-Prevention Contract", Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 6 (2): 78–87, doi:10.3109/10673229809000314, PMID 10370451
4. ^ The "Suicide-Prevention Contract": A Dangerous Myth, vol. 38, Psychiatric News, July 18, 2003, p. 3
5. ^ LM Range; C Campbell; SH Kovac (2002), No-suicide contracts: An overview and recommendations (PDF)

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Suicide

Suicide crisis|

* Assessment of suicide risk
* Crisis hotline
* List of suicide crisis lines
* Suicidal ideation
* Suicide intervention
* Suicidology
* Suicide prevention
* Suicide watch

Social aspects|

* Awareness
* Legislation
* Philosophy of suicide
* Religious views
* Euthanasia
* Right to die
* Benevolent suicide
* Suicide survivor
* Literature
* Suicide and the Internet

Suicide types|

* Assisted suicide
* Bullying and suicide (list)
* Copycat
* Familicide
* Forced
* Honor
* Jumping from height
* Locations
* Mass
* Murder–suicide
* Vatakkiruttal
* Seppuku
* Sokushinbutsu
* Sallekhana
* Sati
* Prayopavesa
* Self-sacrifice
* Banzai charge
* Kamikaze
* Senicide
* Suicide attack
* By cop
* By pilot
* Pact

Epidemiology|

* Sex differences
* List of countries by suicide rate
* LGBT-related suicides
* Antidepressants and suicide risk

History|

* Suicide in antiquity
* List of suicides
* List of suicides in the 21st century

Related|

* Suicide attempt
* Self-harm
* Suicide methods
* Suicide note
* Last words
* Tourism
* Suicide prevention contract

By subculture|

* Doctors
* LGBT youth
* Music subcultures
* Prisoners
* Youth

By country|

* Australia
* Bangladesh
* Bhutan
* Cameroon
* Canada
* China
* France
* Denmark
* Greenland
* Guyana
* India
* farmers
* Iran
* Japan
* Kazakhstan
* Lithuania
* Mozambique
* Nepal
* Pakistan
* Russia
* Singapore
* South Korea
* Spain
* Sri Lanka
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom
* United States
* college
* farmers
* military veteran
* Native American
* teenage

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