Guidlines of helping suicidal person on the scene: A lesson from Miaoli Lifelines

• Main Authors: YU,YAO-TUNG, 禹耀東
• Other Authors: 曾幼涵
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yxeukn

碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 應用心理學系碩士在職專班 === 102 === Objective: In Taiwan, on-the-spot suicide prevention work is mainly preformed by the police and firefighters, practicing "the crucial mission of suicidal crisis intervention." Its mission is to protect the safety of the person who attempts to suicide. However, in Miaoli County, the first time suicide crisis prevention professionals assisting the police in handling suicidal crisis was five years ago. Its purpose was to focus on the hopelessness and helplessness of the person who attempts to suicide and perform immediate symptom relief, protecting the person’s security (Bongar, 1991) as well as solving the problem and facilitating the arrangement of resources. It is hoped that with the help of suicide crisis prevention professionals, the perplexity dangerous emotions aroused in the suicidal person’s mind would be soothed, and can return to traditional psychotherapy after the crisis. This study intends to investigate: The police’s and firefighter’s experience in handling suicidal crisis intervention; the suicide crisis prevention professional’s experience in the field of crisis intervention; by exploring these issues above, it is hoped that a more effective suicide prevention mode would be established. Therefore, this study focus on the interviews with the people who are closely related to the suicidal crisis scenes, including the police, the firefighters, medical faculties, educational faculties, as well as the suicidal prevention officers, and investigate their valuable experiences in handling suicidal intervention.