Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better

Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better
ISBN-10
0190050632
ISBN-13
9780190050634
Category
Medical
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2021
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Craig J. Bryan

Description

"When I joined the Air Force in 2005, hostilities in Iraq were escalating, resulting in more frequent and longer deployments for just about everyone serving in the military, including psychologists. Soon thereafter, the suicide rate among military personnel also started to rise, especially in the Army and Marine Corps. During the first few years of that upward trend, the general sense was that the military was just having a few "bad years." In 2008, however, the age- and gender-adjusted Army and Marine suicide rates surpassed the U.S. general population rate. By the time I deployed to Iraq in February 2009, the military suicide rate had been rising steadily for three consecutive years; the initial assumption that we were simply experiencing a few bad years had dissolved, and an uncomfortable recognition that we had a clear problem on our hands had taken hold"--

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