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Multicausality in suicidal processes, 10 credits
Multikausalitet i suicidala processer, 10 hp
This course has been cancelled, for further information see Transitional provisions in the last version of the syllabus.
Please note that the course syllabus is available in the following versions:
Spring2008 , Spring2011
4FH011
Multicausality in suicidal processes 10 credits
Higher Education, study regulation 2007 Public Health Sciences
AV - Second cycle
Fail (U), pass (G) or pass with distinction (VG) Department of Global Public Health
Arbetsgruppen för masterprogrammet i folkhälsovetenskap 2007-10-04
Programnämnd 5 2011-03-24 Spring 2011
Objectives
Upon completion of the course the student should have achieved an advanced understanding of the interaction of biological, social, and psychological vulnerablitity factors and external adversity in generating severe mental ill-health and suicide. The student should be able to search and analyticallly discuss scientic informtion on mental ill-health and suicide from an individual- as well as a
poulation-based perspective. The student should also be able to reflect on the ethical questions and emotional complications that are associated with the field of research.
Content
The focus of the course is on the interaction of individual vulnerability factors with external adversity in generating severe mental distress and suicide. "Suicidal processes" denote sequences of events in an individual's life that may culminate in a conscious wish to die and in suicide. Lectures and seminars are given on neurobiological, psychological, and sociological perspectives on mental ill health and suicide.
Anthropological perspectives and social and cultural protective factors are also addressed.
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Transitional provisions
The course is cancelled. Examination under the syllabus is offered until Spring 2012 for students who do not complete the course successfully
Literature and other teaching aids
Kramer, Peter D.
Against depression
New York : Viking, 2005 - 353 s.
ISBN:0-670-03405-3 LIBRIS-ID:9715692 Library search
Oxford textbook of suicidology and suicide prevention : a global perspective Wasserman, Danuta; Wasserman, Camilla
Oxford : Oxford University Press, cop. 2009. - xxvii, 872 s.
ISBN:978-0-19-857005-9 (hbk.) LIBRIS-ID:11276499 Library search
Suicide : an unnecessary death Wasserman, Danuta
London : Martin Dunitz, 2001 - xxv, 286 s.
ISBN:1-85317-822-5 (hft.) LIBRIS-ID:8330128 Library search
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Course code: 4FH011
