Rethinking Suicide
- Author : Craig J. Bryan
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- File Size : 40,7 Mb
- Release : 03 June 2023
- ISBN : 9780190050634
- Page : 233 pages
- Rating : 4/5 (21 users)
Summary: Rethinking Suicide PDF is a Fantastic Medical book by Craig J. Bryan. It was published by Oxford University Press on 03 June 2023. This Book has 233 pages and Available to download in PDF, EPUB and Kindle Format. Read detail book and summary below and click download button to get book file and read directly from your devices.
"When I joined the Air Force in 2005, hostilities in Iraq were escalating, resulting in more frequent and longer deployments for just about everyone serving in the military, including psychologists. Soon thereafter, the suicide rate among military personnel also started to rise, especially in the Army and Marine Corps. During the first few years of that upward trend, the general sense was that the military was just having a few "bad years." In 2008, however, the age- and gender-adjusted Army and Marine suicide rates surpassed the U.S. general population rate. By the time I deployed to Iraq in February 2009, the military suicide rate had been rising steadily for three consecutive years; the initial assumption that we were simply experiencing a few bad years had dissolved, and an uncomfortable recognition that we had a clear problem on our hands had taken hold"--