Retrieval of Life Affirming Values and their Incorporation into a Suicidality Prevention Plan

Abstract

Abstract. This article is intended primarily as a companion piece to provide additional background and illustration for a submission by the same authors to The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. It is also the second in a series appearing in Conscience Works to characterize recently employed techniques to render psychiatric treatment of children and adolescents in a conscience sensitive manner. It consists of a progressive Case Presentation interwoven with Discussion points, which together demonstrate the retrieval of life affirming values in the context of suicidality management and the incorporation of these values in an overall suicidality prevention plan.