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- Title
Preventing Suicide: A Neglected Social Work Research Agenda.
- Authors
Joe, Sean; Niedermeier, Danielle
- Abstract
Social workers encounter suicidal clients; however, little is known about social work's empirical knowledge base for suicide assessment and treatment. In the first comprehensive study of social work's contribution to the suicide literature, the authors conducted systematic electronic and manual searches for suicide research published in peer-reviewed journals by social work investigators for the period 1980-2006, with the purpose of ascertaining the state of clinical knowledge related to suicide risk factors and effective treatments. These findings reveal that despite recent increases to the study of suicide by social work researchers, they have contributed limited evidenced-based knowledge in the last twenty-six years on the treatment or prevention of suicide or suicide-related behaviours. The article outlines the risk factors for suicide and discusses the implications for clinical social work practice and research.
- Subjects
SUICIDE prevention; SOCIAL work research; SUICIDE risk factors; SUICIDAL behavior treatment; SOCIAL services literature; PSYCHIATRIC social work
- Publication
British Journal of Social Work, 2008, Vol 38, Issue 3, p507
- ISSN
0045-3102
- Publication type
Article