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Previous efforts to demonstrate the effectiveness of outpatient treatment of patients after a suicide attempt have not led to convincing results (Gibbons et al. 1978; Wulliemier et al. 1979; overview in Kurz and Möller 1982). The present study deals (specifically) with that group of patients known to possess the highest risk of repeating a suicide attempt, namely, those patients who are suicide attempt repeaters. The basic hypothesis maintains that parasuicide repeaters are individuals suffering less from an episodic than from a more continuous psychosocial disturbance. From this, it seems logical to assume that especially for this clientele a long-term therapy would be more successful than a short-term, crisis-oriented therapy. In the present study, the effect of a short-term, crisis-oriented outpatient treatment program with research staff comprised of 12 weekly sessions extending over a maximum of 3 months is compared with a treatment program having a single 1-h session per month but extending over 12 months.
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Torhorst, A., Möller, HJ., Kurz, A., Schmid-Bode, W., Lauter, H. (1988). Comparing a 3-Month and a 12-Month-Outpatient Aftercare Program for Parasuicide Repeaters. In: Möller, HJ., Schmidtke, A., Welz, R. (eds) Current Issues of Suicidology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73358-1_55
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