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Table of Contents:

• Suicide prevention is a winnable battle
• Preventing suicide is a national imperative
• Surveillance of suicide and suicide attempts among veterans: addressing a national imperative
• Preventing suicide by preventing lethal injury: the need to act on what we already know
• Suicide prevention for veterans and active duty personnel
• Precedence for integration of clinical services in public health initiatives
• Facilitating treatment engagement during high-risk transition periods: a potential suicide prevention strategy
• Lessons learned from mental health enhancement and suicide prevention activities in the veterans health administration
• Is the rate of suicide among veterans elevated?
• A call to link data to answer pressing questions about suicide risk among veterans
• Estimating the risk of suicide among US veterans: how should we proceed from here?
• Addressing the surveillance goal in the national strategry for suicide prevention: the department of defense suicide event report
• Using science to improve communications about suicide among military and veteran populations: looking for a few good messages
• Implementation and early utilization of a suicide hotline for veterans
• An emergency department-based brief intervention for veterans at risk for suicide (SAFE VET)
• Prevalence and characteristics of suicide ideation and attempts among active miliatry and veteran participants in national health survey
• Characteristics of suicides among US army active duty personnel in 17 US states from 2005 to 2007
• Suicidal ideation among sexual minority veterans: results from the 2005-2010 Massachusetts behavioral risk factor surveillance survey
• Evaluation of a family-centered prevention intervention for military children and families facing wartime deployments
• Effect of dwell time on the mental health of US military personnel with multiple combat tours

• Use of the air force post-deployment health reassessment for the identification of depression and posttraumatic for suicide prevention
• Mental and physical health and alcohol and drug use following return deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan.
• Reduced mortality among department of veterans affairs patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder lost to follow-up and engaged in active outreach to return for care
• Effects of Iraq/Afghanistan deployments on major depression and substance use disorder: analysis of active duty personnel in the US miliatry
• Patterns of treatment utilization before suicide among male veterans with substance use disorders
• Sleep disturbance preceding suicide among veterans
• Suicide mortality among patients treated by the veterans health administration from 2000 to 2007
• Suicide among veterans in 16 states, 2005 to 2008: comparisons between utilizers and nonutilizers of veterans health administration (VHA) services based on data from reporting system, and VHA administrative records
• Suicide among patients in the veterans affairs health system: rural-urban differences in rates, risks, and methods
• The role of pain, functioning, and mental health in suicidality among veterans affairs primary care patients
• Differences between veteran suicides with and without psychiatric symptoms
• Suicide risk and precipitating circumstances among young, middle-aged, and older male veterans
• Suicide incidence and risk factors in an active duty United States military population
• Suicidal behavior in a national sample of older homeless veterans
• Veterans and suicide: a reexamination of the national death index-linked national health interview survey
• The US air force suicide prevention program: implications for public health policy
• A prospective study of depression following combat deployment in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
• What are the warning signs for suicide?

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Contributors:

Bossarte, Robert M.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Veterans — Suicidal behavior — United States

Veterans — Mental health — United States

Suicide — United States — Prevention

War neuroses — United States

Military psychiatry — United States

Veterans

Suicidal behavior

Veterans — Mental health

Suicide — Prevention

Suicide

War neuroses

Military psychiatry

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

x, 521 page : illustrations ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

HV6545.7 .V48 2013

ISBNs:

9780875532110 (alk. paper)
087553211X (alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2013011532

OCLC Numbers:

830992893