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Article: Age Appropriate No-suicide Agreements: Professionals' Ratings of Appropriateness and Effectiveness.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Education & Treatment of Children
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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Abstract
No-suicide or no-harm agreements (NSA'S) are frequently used with suicidal adults, but little research exists on NSA's with children. To ascertain experts' opinions, 368 randomly sampled professional psychologists who specialized in children read one of six vignettes describing a suicidal youth and a therapist who used a NSA, then rated the appropriateness and effectiveness of the intervention. The vignettes varied the child's age (6, 9, or 12 years) and academic history (problems/no problems), and were paired with one of three age-appropriate NSA's, creating 18 treatments. A 3 (NSA Reading Level) x 3 (Child's Age) x 2 (Academic Performance) MANOVA ...