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The Social History Questionnaire In Relation To Suicide Risk Potential, Edward Ward
The Social History Questionnaire In Relation To Suicide Risk Potential, Edward Ward
Masters Theses
The study of suicide is the study of individuals, each of whom can be considered a unique entity. However, in the course of studying suicide case histories, some demographic variables seem to repeat themselves as differentiating potential suicides from persons who will never attempt or commit suicide. The purpose of this paper is to determine which social history variables correlate significantly with subjects who have made a definite suicide attempt or gesture.
The basic question raised by this thesis was: What factors in a person's social history correlate significantly to an increased probability of having made a suicide attempt or …
The Social History Questionnaire As A Predictor Of Therapeutic Outcome, Susan E. Suter
The Social History Questionnaire As A Predictor Of Therapeutic Outcome, Susan E. Suter
Masters Theses
One of the most critical problems encountered in clinical practice concerns the outcome criteria used for predicting therapeutic improvement. At present, there is no single outcome criteria that is universally accepted as evidence of improvement. Representative studies by Lubarsky et al (1971) have emphasized the magnitude of this problem by citing the many patient variables that may effect the outcome of a therapeutic relationship.
The importance of this therapeutic relationship in terms of time and committment on the part of both the therapist and the client, necessitates some objective means for first, the development of an instrument that can measure …