Citation

Mason K, Geist M, Kuo R, Marshall D, Wines JD. J. Pastoral Care Counsel. 2016; 70(1): 34-39.

Affiliation

McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1542305016631487

PMID

26956748

Abstract

Catholic, Jewish and Protestant clergy (n = 801) completed a survey to identify predictors of clergy's ability to fulfill a suicide gatekeeper role. Exploratory backward stepwise regression identified predictors of risk identification including suicide knowledge, religion, conducting suicide funerals, having an attitude that people have a right to die, age, and race. Predictors of ability to intervene include suicide knowledge, training, religion, right to die attitude, and ethnicity. Recommendations include more suicide training and clergy self-care.

© The Author(s) 2016.

Language: en