This NYT article about 14 year-old boy who died on Wednesday after critically wounding a teacher and classmates, is a case study in risk for adolescent suicide. Abuse/neglect history, legal trouble, access to weapons, social misfit, recent disciplinary action at school. The temporal proximity of his older brother’s arrest is also striking…again pointing to [...]
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Conversation with Paul Quinnett, Founder/CEO of QPR
August 1, 2007
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I talked yesterday with Paul Quinnett, Ph.D. Founder and CEO of the QPR Institute. He has been working in the field of suicide prevention for decades and has developed an excellent set of tools for clinicians. I enjoyed the conversation because Dr. Quinnett is bright, experienced, and passionate about his work, and also because of [...]
Read moreMurder-Suicide In Ireland
July 19, 2007
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Ireland has experienced a string of murder-suicides of different types over the past 18-months. The most recent of these events, which occurred Tuesday, prompted this Statement From The Irish Association Of Suicidology, as reported in Medical News Today. In scanning the Irish Examiner today, I ran across this article advocating for funding psychological autopsies in [...]
Read moreErratum on previous post: Cornell not author, just interviewed
April 25, 2007
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Correction on my previous post about the Times London article about suicide turned outward. Although the website makes it look like Dewey Cornell wrote the article I cited, Dewey has informed me that he did not author the article, but was interviewed by a reporter who wrote it. I guess they do by-lines differently on [...]
Read moreSuicide turned outward: Times of London Article by Dewey Cornell
April 25, 2007
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In a previous post, I shared some raw thoughts about some of the connections between suicide and violence. Here is a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece by Dewey Cornell (a former teacher of mine at UVA) that brilliantly captures those connections and others. Strongly recommended psychological and social commentary about the VA Tech murder-suicide last week.
Read moreChildTrends Report: Teen deaths by homiside, suicide, and firearms
April 25, 2007
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Apropos of my recent posts reflecting about suicide, guns and homicide, colleague Bob Hawkes sent me a link to this report: Teen Homicide, Suicide, and Firearm Deaths, compiled by the Child Trends Databank. There are some nice figures in the report, including one nicely demonstrating recent declines in teen suicide rates (for related post see [...]
Read moreMurder-Suicide, Domestic Violence…Common threads in violence against self and others
April 17, 2007
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The murder-suicide that took place at Virginia Tech on Monday on a lot of people’s minds right now. Certainly on mine. So sad. This event was mentioned several times at a conference I attended parts of today on “Multidisciplinary perspectives on partner violence“. In fact, one of the key speakers, Sandra M. Stith, Ph.D., is [...]
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