Efficacy of Brief Telephone Psychotherapy with Callers to a Suicide Hotline

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne K. Rhee ◽  
Michael Merbaum ◽  
Michael J. Strube ◽  
Susan M. Self
Keyword(s):  
Telephone Psychotherapy ◽  
Suicide Hotline

Medical Legal Issues in Psychiatric Home Care and Telemental Health

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kohn ◽  
Thomas Sheeran ◽  
Suzanne Duni-Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Physical Disability ◽  
Home Monitoring ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Home Healthcare ◽  
Telemental Health ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Standards And Guidelines ◽  
Telephone Psychotherapy ◽  
Physician Relationship

Many elderly persons who reside in the community have the same degree of physical disability as those in nursing homes. Issues regarding autonomy and appropriateness of living independently, confidentiality, limitation of services provided, refusal of treatment, and physician safety often need to be addressed in home visits. Telemental health may help bridge the provider gap and is evolving as a service and field. Telemental health can take a variety of forms, including in-home monitoring, Internet and telephone psychotherapy, and videoconferencing. In telemental health there are ethical and forensic issues beyond those encountered in the home visit that clinicians may encounter. This chapter addresses these and medical-legal issues related to telemental health, including licensing and credentialing, malpractice and standard of care, informed consent, confidentiality, and the patient–physician relationship. Standards and guidelines have been established for telemedicine, including home healthcare and video-based online mental health services. These guidelines involve administrative core, technical core, clinical core, and implementation standards.

Cytochrome c and the suicide hotline

2003 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
George L. McLendon
Keyword(s):  
Cytochrome C ◽  
Suicide Hotline

scholarly journals No evidence of increase in suicide in Greece during the first wave of Covid-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sotiris Vandoros ◽  
Olga Theodorikakou ◽  
Kyriakos Katsadoros ◽  
Dimitra Zafeiropoulou ◽  
Ichiro Kawachi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Econometric Model ◽  
Interrupted Time Series ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Interrupted Time Series Analysis ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Suicide Hotline ◽  
Second Wave

AbstractBackground and ObjectiveMental health outcomes have reportedly worsened in several countries during the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns. In the present study we examined whether suicides increased in Greece during the first wave of the pandemic.MethodsWe used daily suicide estimates from a Suicide Observatory in Greece from 2015-2020 and followed three methodologies: A descriptive approach, an interrupted time series analysis, and a differences-in-differences econometric model.ResultsWe did not find any empirical evidence of any increase in suicides during the first wave of Covid-19 and the lockdown in any of the three approaches used.ConclusionsSuicides did not seem to increase during the first wave of covid-19 and lockdown in Greece. However, this does not mean that mental health did not deteriorate, or that we will not observe an increase in suicides during the second wave. Protective factors for Greece during the first wave may include working from home (for those able to tele-work), strong family ties, advertising of a suicide hotline and income support for the unemployed.

Compassion Fatigue and Applied Anthropology: Lessons from a Suicide Hotline

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-44
Author(s):  
Chelce Carter
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Real World ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
Domestic Violence Shelter ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Suicide Hotline

Compassion fatigue is a problem many frontline workers face. It presents in the form of sleep troubles, intimacy issues, and general anxiety and depression as a result of working with individuals who have experienced trauma firsthand. As applied anthropology becomes more involved on the frontlines, researchers risk experiencing symptoms similar to those that others who work in these fields have faced. I explain how I encountered compassion fatigue through the literature as well as through real-world experience in an internship with a suicide hotline and domestic violence shelter. I then provide solutions for preventing compassion fatigue in applied anthropological research, suggesting that we might be able to impact other frontline workers as well.

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