TY - JOUR
T1 - Suicide Intervention Skills and Related Factors in Community and Health Professionals
AU - Scheerder, G
AU - Reynders, A
AU - Andriessen, K
AU - Van Audenhove, C
N1 - PPT
PY - 2010/4
Y1 - 2010/4
N2 - Health and community professionals have considerable exposure to suicidal people and need to be well skilled to deal with them. We assessed suicide intervention skills with a Dutch version of the SIRI in 980 health and community professionals and psychology students. Suicide intervention skills clearly differed among professional groups and were strongly related to experience, especially suicide-specific experience. Some community professionals scored below acceptable levels on their ability to respond appropriately to suicidal people they encounter, and tended to overestimate their skills level. Training is therefore indicated for these groups, and may be useful to more highly experienced groups too.
AB - Health and community professionals have considerable exposure to suicidal people and need to be well skilled to deal with them. We assessed suicide intervention skills with a Dutch version of the SIRI in 980 health and community professionals and psychology students. Suicide intervention skills clearly differed among professional groups and were strongly related to experience, especially suicide-specific experience. Some community professionals scored below acceptable levels on their ability to respond appropriately to suicidal people they encounter, and tended to overestimate their skills level. Training is therefore indicated for these groups, and may be useful to more highly experienced groups too.
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U2 - 10.1521/suli.2010.40.2.115
DO - 10.1521/suli.2010.40.2.115
M3 - A1: Web of Science-article
C2 - 20465346
SN - 0363-0234
VL - 40
SP - 115
EP - 124
JO - Suicide and Life-threatening Behavior
JF - Suicide and Life-threatening Behavior
IS - 2
ER -