Suicide in the Military Article

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I thought some of you might find this tragic article of interest. I was struck by a few points. Specifically, the article brought up the employment of miliatry psychologist/psychiatrists vs. civilian psychologists/psychiatrists and conflicts of interest. I also thought the part about the Chaplin thinking the soldier had "demons" was strange. Did they mean the Chaplin thought he literally had demons? Even if he did, don't you think he still should have tried to help this guy? 😱 Also, the psychologist gets a patient with SI and does a 10 min initial eval??? To be fair, this is just an NPR article and we really don't know exactly what happened.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17929487

 

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I thought some of you might find this tragic article of interest. I was struck by a few points. Specifically, the article brought up the employment of miliatry psychologist/psychiatrists vs. civilian psychologists/psychiatrists and conflicts of interest. I also thought the part about the Chaplin thinking the soldier had "demons" was strange. Did they mean the Chaplin thought he literally had demons? Even if he did, don't you think he still should have tried to help this guy? 😱 Also, the psychologist gets a patient with SI and does a 10 min initial eval??? To be fair, this is just an NPR article and we really don't know exactly what happened.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17929487

"Their career is inherent on the decisions they make to ensure that soldiers go back to the front."

A lie. Sorry, I have been in Army mental health for 7 years, and it is a small world. (About 90 psychologists + technicians in the entire active duty side.) I have never seen a provider pressured to send suicidal soldiers back to the front. They would compromise the mission, and it is unethical. What the F*** does Mr. Scheuerman know about Army policy on assessing for suicide? It is an offensive statement made by a guy who is understandably trying to make sense out of why his son killed himself, and of course, blames the Army. The NPR crowd loves to make the military look like bad, so it does not surprise me.

 

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I thought some of you might find this tragic article of interest. I was struck by a few points. Specifically, the article brought up the employment of miliatry psychologist/psychiatrists vs. civilian psychologists/psychiatrists and conflicts of interest. I also thought the part about the Chaplin thinking the soldier had "demons" was strange. Did they mean the Chaplin thought he literally had demons? Even if he did, don't you think he still should have tried to help this guy? 😱 Also, the psychologist gets a patient with SI and does a 10 min initial eval??? To be fair, this is just an NPR article and we really don't know exactly what happened.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17929487

This got a lot of internal attention over at USUHS. It's a tough line that Military Psychologists get to walk, but from what I see from our training, suicide prevention and identification of the intent to commit suicide are high priorities in our training at USUHS. Despite our dual roles as military officers and psychologists, I feel from talking to active military practitioners that we are given ample latitude to fulfill both roles. (I won't know for sure until I'm out there myself obviously.)

Mark

 

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I've been kicking around an article I put together on no-harm / no-suicide contracts a couple months ago. I've been meaning to re-work it to post here/article section. Keep an eye out for it, there is some good info about how suicide assessment/prevention can be compromised.

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I've been kicking around an article I put together on no-harm / no-suicide contracts a couple months ago. I've been meaning to re-work it to post here/article section. Keep an eye out for it, there is some good info about how suicide assessment/prevention can be compromised.

-t

Great. I'd love to read that.