Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Approaches to Suicide

Abstract

Today, suicide is an important public healthproblem. The term suicidal behavior includessuicidal ideation, suicidal attempts and completed suicides. These behaviors are prevalent inall human societies. It is more common inpeople with mental health problems.Considering the loss and pain caused by selfkilling, the treatment and prevention of suicideare among the most urgent social priorities. Inthis article two cognitive-behavioral treatmentapproaches used in the psychosocial treatmentof suicidal patients are described. The first oneis the cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy (CBT)and the second one is the problem solving therapy (PST). Cognitive model ascribes a causalrole to the errors in thinking for the developmentand maintenance of psychopathology. Cognitiveapproach assumes that the underlying reasonsfor suicidal behavior are errors in thinking andcognitive biases. For this approach errors inthinking and cognitive biases make individualsvulnerable to suicidal behavior. Cognitivebehavioral treatment approaches aim at correcting for errors in thinking and teaching functional ways of thinking. As a short-term and structured cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, theproblem solving therapy approach assumes thatpeople develop mental health problemsbecause of inadequacies in solving problemsfaced in everyday life and dysfunctional attitudes towards these problems. For thisapproach, suicidal individuals display inefficientproblem solving skills and they try to solve theirproblems in dysfunctional ways such as selfkilling. Problem solving therapy approach aimsat teaching suicidal persons efficient ways ofsolving problems

Keywords

• Suicide, Cognitive-behavioral Psychotherapy (CBT), Problem Solving Therapy (PST).

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