Examining Suicide and Mental Disorders: Perspectives & Prevention

This essay delves into the intricate relationship between suicide and mental disorders, analyzing the issue through the lens of various psychological schools of thought, including the learning perspective, socio-cognitive school, and biological perspective. It highlights how psychological factors, social situations, and biological predispositions contribute to suicidal tendencies. Furthermore, the essay outlines and discusses seven key techniques for suicide prevention, emphasizing the importance of developing prevention centers, fostering coping mechanisms, providing supportive relationships, teaching the temporary nature of distress, and establishing suicide helplines to help individuals with suicidal thoughts cope with reality and find a path back to normalcy. The assignment underscores the need for a multi-faceted approach to address and mitigate the risk of suicide among individuals with mental health challenges. Desklib offers a wealth of similar resources for students.

Running head: SUICIDE AND MENTAL DISORDER
Suicide and mental disorder
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1SUICIDE AND MENTAL DISORDER
The aim of the paper is to analyze the issue of suicide and mental disorders through the
lens of the different schools of thought. These are namely, learning method, the socio-cognitive
school and biological perspective. Suicide is the process of intentionally causing death to the self
and there are multiple reasons associated to the process of suicide.
1. Based on the theoretical information provided in your text, discuss the differing schools
of thought - learning, socio-cognitive, biological perspectives in relation to suicide.
According to the socio-emotional learning perspective, psychological factors are one of
the reasons for the higher rates of suicides and it is the dissatisfaction and unfulfilled
psychological needs that leads to higher level of frustration and gradually to suicide.
According to the socio-cognitive school of thought it is argued that the matter of suicide
is the response of the social situations that have a direct correlation to the development of
mental disorder and suicide. This includes issues like bullying and harassment within a
social context. It can also be the religious beliefs which help to determine the number of
suicide rates. According to Durkheim, group cohesiveness is seen to be a factor of
suicide.
The third school of thought, the biological school, it is caused due to the biological fact
that these individuals are biologically depressed and this is the reason why tend to
develop suicidal tendencies. Studies have also found that the relation between neural
connection and suicides have seemed to have reduced the level of neurotransmitter
serotonin. Even it is argued that biological factors contribute towards mood disorders and
this has direct correlation with suicide.

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2. Based on the information discussed on p. 181"A Closer Look", outline and discuss 7
techniques that can assist in suicide prevention.
However it is important to develop mechanism to deal with the issue of suicide and
depression.
There is a need to develop multiple prevention centre for the effective care of the
individuals with higher tendency of suicides.
It is important to develop a mentality that the primary objective is to bring back those
people to normalcy who tend to commit suicide and it can be done by developing ability
to cope with the reality.
Supportive persons for the maintenance of normal lifestyle who would help to come out
of mental depression.
It is imperative to teach these individuals that distress is temporary it passes with time.
Development of mental ability to accept that distress is not endless and it gets erased with
time.
Need for development of a suicide helpline to individuals with suicidal tendencies.
Helping the see the reality and develop the ability to cope with it.