@article{ref1,
title="Two models of suicide",
journal="Australasian psychiatry",
year="2009",
author="Pridmore, Saxby and Jamil, Mohammed Yaacob",
volume="17",
number="6",
pages="466-471",
abstract="Objective: The aim of this paper is to present two models of separate but related aspects of suicide, developed with a view to improving understanding and management of this behaviour. Conclusions: First, the predicament model of suicide posits that all suicide represents an escape from a predicament and associated distress. Predicaments are composed of either external (environmental) or internal (mental disorders) factors, or both. Suicide occurs when a threshold is exceeded on a suicide risk ladder, and the degree of movement toward the threshold in response to a particular stressor depends on a range of factors. Second, the suicide pathways model integrates medical and sociological concepts, with distress as the central component, and three run-offs: mental disorder, medicalized and a non-mental disorder (egoistic/anomic; reaction) suicide.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1039-8562",
doi="10.1080/10398560903281824",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10398560903281824"
}