The contemplation of suicide: Its relationship to irrational beliefs in a client sample and the implications for long range suicide prevention

Cognitive variables related to suicidal contemplation in adolescents with implications for long-range prevention

“…You believe that things should not go wrong, and that it is awful or terrible when they do. Baisden, 1977;Lane, Bessai, & Bard, 1977;Lohr & Bonge, 1982;Martin, Dolliver, & Irwin, 1977;Secrist, 1986;Woods, 1983Woods, , 1984Woods, , 1987Woods, , 1991Woods & Coggin, 1985;Woods & Lyons, 1990;Woods & Muller, 1988. ) Procedure All materials were handed out as a complete package during a regular class meeting.…”

“…There is at present, however, no universally accepted theory (deCatanzaro, 1981), though leading explanations have been the sociological, psychoanalytic, organic and phenomenological models (Mainini, 1981;Woods & Muller, 1988). The cognitive-behavioral model can also be added to this classification (Beck, Brown & Steer, 1989;Beck, Resnick, & Lettieri, 1974;Bedrosian & Beck, 1979;Clum, Patsiokas & Luscomb, 1979;Woods & Muller, 1988). Each of these models defines and examines suicidal antecedent conditions, suicidal ideation, contemplation of suicide, parasuicidal behavior and actual suicidal actions.…”

“…The implications of the findings for RET theory and for therapeutic and preventive strategies related to emotional distress and suicidal contemplation are clear. Other approaches to the explanation of suicide are cited and reference is made to a previous critical summary of them (Woods & Muller, 1988).…”

Dimensions of perfectionism and suicide ideation

“…Both perfectionistic attitudes and sensitivity to criticism accounted for independent variance in suicide ideation. Similarly, Woods and Muller (1988) found that individuals contemplating suicide endorsed strong needs to perform perfectly and to be approved of by others (also see Ellis & Ratliff, 1986;Marks & Hailer, 1977).…”

A study of ?Belief? and ?Non-belief? items from the jones irrational beliefs test with implications for the theory of RET

“…The author of this paper has systematically used this instrument since the late 1970's with over 2,000 clients, students, workshop participants, and people in RET training and has reported its usefulness in research on a variety of problems including headaches and other psychosomatic disorders, Type A Behavior, anxiety, anger, and suicidal contemplation (Woods, 1984(Woods, , 1987Woods & Coggin, 1985;Woods & Lyons, 1990;Woods & Muller, 1988;Woods, Silverman, Gentilini, Cunningham, & Grieger, 1991), as well as its value in therapy (Woods, 1991).…”