Understanding and preventing military suicide.
Abstract
The continual rise in the U.S. military's suicide rate since 2004 is one of the most vexing issues currently facing military leaders, mental health professionals, and suicide experts. Despite considerable efforts to address this problem, however, suicide rates have not decreased. The authors consider possible reasons for this frustrating reality, and question common assumptions and approaches to military suicide prevention. They further argue that suicide prevention efforts that more explicitly embrace the military culture and implement evidence-based strategies across the full spectrum of prevention and treatment could improve success. Several recommendations for augmenting current efforts to prevent military suicide are proposed.
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The weaker association in military samples supports prior hypotheses that military membership enhances social connections and diminishes thwarted belongingness.
“This finding supports prior researchers’ hypotheses that membership in a military cohort, which emphasizes and facilitates the development of close interpersonal bonds, may enhance social connections and diminish thwarted belongingness”
From The interpersonal theory of suicide: A systematic review and meta-analysis of a decade of cross-national research. (2017) · cites this paper as Bryan, Jennings, Jobes & Bradley, 2012
Suicide prevention largely takes place within formal organizations, and several formal organizations are implicated in suicide risk.
“This is a major limitation since suicide prevention largely takes place within formal organizations, and several formal organizations are implicated in suicide risk [e.g., occupations (Skipper and Williams, 2012), military (Bryan et al., 2012), and schools (Wyman et al., 2019)].”
From The Social Roots of Suicide: Theorizing How the External Social World Matters to Suicide and Suicide Prevention (2021) · cites this paper as Bryan et al., 2012
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- Authors
- Bryan, C. J., Jennings, K. W., Jobes, D. A., & Bradley, J. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Utah (US)
- Venue
- Archives of Suicide Research
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2012-04
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 95-110
- ISSN
- 1381-1118 (ISSN-L)
- 1543-6136
- OpenAlex
- W2168357029
- Cited by
- 109
- References
- 76
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 8.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Archives of Suicide Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Health › Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Keywords
- military suicide, suicide prevention, suicide rates, military culture, evidence-based prevention strategies, suicide treatment, military mental health, suicide prevention policy
- MeSH terms
- Suicide Prevention, Culture, Humans, Military Personnel, Quality of Life, Suicide
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