Developing social work for suicide prevention

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25780358
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Kwansei Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: ICHINOSE Akiko 関西学院大学, 人間福祉学部, 講師 (50632361)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: オープン・ダイアローグ / 対話的実践アプローチ / 全人的リカバリー / 福祉モデル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research considered a suicide prevention applying Open Dialogue. In consequence, this study implies three intervention logic of Open Dialogue is useful for suicide prevention. First is how to identify a problem. It is useful for understanding a view in first person that we recognize a person’s suicidal ideation and behavior as trying to give meaning to his/her experiences and to cope his/her hardship. Second is desirable outcome. It is helpful for a person’s whole recovery that we set goal of intervention to give new understanding and meaning to things which a person have expressed as suicidal behavior. Third is a way to produce change. Open Dialogue’s approach that makes change in relationship between a person and support system surround him/her from monologue to dialogue is needed for suicide prevention.

Free Research Field

ソーシャルワーク実践理論