What does research suggest about the mindset of people who are suicidal? In particular, where do suicidal people stand in terms of their self-awareness, their level of emotionality, and the levels of meaning at which they are thinking?

What will be an ideal response?


a . Suicide usually begins with a perceived discrepancy between reality (a person's current circumstances) and some set of expectations or other standards. People who are suicidal do not feel that they are living up to their potential (or to the standards that they would like to live up to), and tend to feel miserable and hopeless about the future.
b. Self-awareness tends to be very high, and very aversive. Committing suicide can in some cases be interpreted as a means by which to escape from painful self-awareness.
c. In terms of emotionality, those who are suicidal tend to feel numb and emotionally disconnected rather than sad or angry.
d. They also tend to be focused on low levels of meaning (which helps them to stay emotionally disconnected and to more readily engage in suicidal behavior).

Psychology

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a. privacy b. anonymity c. confidentiality d. de-identification

Psychology

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a. latent learning. b. response chaining. c. operant stimulus discrimination. d. operant stimulus generalization.

Psychology

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What will be an ideal response?

Psychology