Citation

Davidson M, Range LM. Educ. Treat. Child. 2000; 23(2): 143-155.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, West Virginia University Press)

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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 ana 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) × 3 (Child's Age) × 2 (Academic Performance) MANOVA followed by ANOVAs indicated that psychologists mildly to moderately favored written NSA's regardless of reading level. An implication is that tne process of getting the agreement may be more important tnat its wording.

Language: en