Prolonged trauma and subsequent suicidal behavior: Child abuse and combat trauma reviewed

✍ Scribed by Dalia M. Adams; Kim L. Lehnert

• Book ID: 102925958
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 903 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490100408

✦ Synopsis

Stressfil events have long been acknowledged as important risk factors for suicidal behaviol: Although suicide research .has generally focused on less severe stressful events, a long-standing vulnerability for suicidal behavior may be a sequela of prolonged traumatic stresson. The present paper discusses the relationship between prolonged traumatic stress and subsequent suicidality by reviewing studies that have eramined suicidal behavior in relationship to child abuse and combat trauma. Traumatic stress is conceptualized according to a person-environment interactional paradigm, and this paradigm is used to discuss the characteristics of traumatic events, recovery environments, and individuals that may contribute to subsequent suicidality.