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A Positive Psychological Approach to Suicide Encouraging Health-Promoting Behaviors in Primary Care to Reduce Suicide Rates

A Positive Psychological Approach to Suicide : Encouraging Health-Promoting Behaviors in Primary... [Lack of access to specialized treatment, stigma against mental health services, and poor cost effectiveness hamper the current high-risk approaches to suicide prevention that have dominated suicidology research and clinical intervention. We discuss health promotion as a low-cost, universal treatment that encourages personal growth and well-being, and which can be implemented at both the individual level and proscriptively by healthcare providers in primary care. Previous research suggests that health-related quality of life, which can be improved through strategies such as exercise, nutrition, reductions in stress and substance abuse, and behavioral activation, is related to less suicide risk. Improved mood, better overall well-being, and less psychopathology are additional beneficial outcomes of such health-related efforts. We discuss an array of empirically supported health promotion strategies that can be implemented in primary care and other healthcare settings, or at home, to prevent suicide. Future research and clinical work are needed to better understand, develop, and integrate health-related strategies into both individual and community level suicide prevention strategies, including proactive approaches.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Positive Psychological Approach to Suicide Encouraging Health-Promoting Behaviors in Primary Care to Reduce Suicide Rates

Part of the Advances in Mental Health and Addiction Book Series
Editors: Hirsch, Jameson K.; Chang, Edward C.; Kelliher Rabon, Jessica
Davidson, Collin L.; Slish, Meredith L.; Rhoades-Kerswill, Sarah; O’Keefe, Victoria M.; Tucker, Raymond P.
A Positive Psychological Approach to Suicide — Feb 26, 2019
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
ISBN
978-3-030-03224-1
Pages
161 –181
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-03225-8_8
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Abstract

[Lack of access to specialized treatment, stigma against mental health services, and poor cost effectiveness hamper the current high-risk approaches to suicide prevention that have dominated suicidology research and clinical intervention. We discuss health promotion as a low-cost, universal treatment that encourages personal growth and well-being, and which can be implemented at both the individual level and proscriptively by healthcare providers in primary care. Previous research suggests that health-related quality of life, which can be improved through strategies such as exercise, nutrition, reductions in stress and substance abuse, and behavioral activation, is related to less suicide risk. Improved mood, better overall well-being, and less psychopathology are additional beneficial outcomes of such health-related efforts. We discuss an array of empirically supported health promotion strategies that can be implemented in primary care and other healthcare settings, or at home, to prevent suicide. Future research and clinical work are needed to better understand, develop, and integrate health-related strategies into both individual and community level suicide prevention strategies, including proactive approaches.]

Published: Feb 26, 2019

Keywords: Health promotion; Physical activity; Behavioral activation; Exercise; Nutrition; Primary care; Health-related quality of life

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