Introduction
The world changes to improve its economic, political and social development. However; not all developments occur in equal measure, as man overlooks other aspects for the sake of achieving their goals. Currently, political and economic developments are everyone’s priorities. Moreover, our social life is dwindling, families disintegrating and states rivaling one another for superiority. Thus, individual killings as well as murder are on the rise due to, punishment as stipulated by law or domestic violence. The society is unstable, but nobody seems to help. As much as we fight against social injustices, in-depth understanding of factors that stimulate social instability is essential (James & Gilliland, 2012)
The dynamic of suicide
Suicide dominates our society, as people consider as it an appropriate solution to their problems. However, as much as stress initiates suicide, other factors also contribute to increasing incidences of individual killings. One’s upbringing determines his ability to deal with situations and rationally handle challenges. In cases where a person’s upbringing does not equip him with such abilities, an individual fails to restrain from harmful decisions such as suicide. Similarly, suicides occur depending on activities within one’s environment and people with whom he interacts. The level of interactions between people and decisions they make while socializing, is likely to enhance suicidal acts especially when thier activities are not healthy (James & Gilliland, 2012).
In addition, understanding one’s unconscious behavior helps in curbing suicidal intentions, as such behaviors can be adaptive, but people consider them to be less important. Such adaptive behaviors seem to assist in ones development of self esteem may for some time. Families bring people together and enhance social development but with their disintegrations, people have lost directions in life. In occasions that one gets no help from others, the need for life is lost and suicidal thoughts prevail. This occurs when one is unable to personally solve problems (James & Gilliland 2012).
Suicide and the moral dilemma
People face situations that impact them differently, depending on the level of their involvement in the occurrence. Pursuing such situations often requires our judgments. As a result, this ends up in being stressful when one chooses between two important undertakings. For example, choosing between interests and moral values is conflicting because one has to sacrifice decision making. In choosing between duties that are equally important especially in faces of calamities, one ends up in being unable to practice mental control. Thus, commits suicide to escape involvement in decision making (Christensen & Gornila 2012).
As much as moral dilemmas cause trauma among people, the manner in which a situation presents itself to third parties plays a major role in the likeliness of committing suicide. Situations that result into loss of families and close relations have greater impacts on people, than those involving strangers. The tone and language through which an individual receives this information would determine one’s ability to commit suicide. Often, people respond to information depending on their deliverance. Expression styles of information triggers moral judgments in people thus, their reactions to traumatizing situations. As much as moral dilemma influences frequencies of suicides, proper relay of information saves people’s lives (Christensen & Gornila 2012).
Characteristics of people who commit suicide
In the current society, a number of factors influence people’s decisions to commit suicide. Ones environment, interpersonal relations as well as, childhood upbringing are responsible for the increasing number of suicides. Often, ones potential to commit suicide shows, but people pay them little attention. Suicidal characters seclude themselves from social settings, as they feel neglect when with people. Restlessness portrays in the behavior of suicidal people as they seem to look for answers to unknown problems. Since they feel neglect, suicidal people escape public attention as well as close friends. A sense of hopelessness prevails in suicidal people as they see nobody worth addressing their challenges. Consequently, every suicidal person shows at least a symptom out of his normal behavior (James & Gilliland, 2012).
Similarities between suicide and homicide
Suicide is the intentional killing of oneself while homicide involves killing another individual for reasons such as, self defense. As much as these actions seem to be different, they have similarities depending on the recipient as well as the offender. Both suicide and homicide involve killing of a living person. In both situations, an initial injury or occurrence is the main driver in taking one’s life. Homicide and suicide occur due to stress that originates from within an individual (James & Gilliland, 2012).
Use of triage assessment form in addressing lethality
Suicidal people require quick intervention to save their situation. An assessment of person’s mental state enables an interventionist to determine his next mode of control. Triage form is important in addressing lethality as it tackles behavioral, affective, and cognitive aspects of an individual. In addition, it codes information about a client thus, helps to easy interpret the level of functioning. Consequently, triage forms enable an interventionist to take relevant actions in controlling an individual. An interventionist is similarly able to monitor his progress in controlling a client (James & Gilliland, 2012).
Conclusion
Suicide and homicide have different definitions but equal impacts on the society. Every suicide in a family is likely to trigger another case within the same lineage. As a result, people in such situations need a reliable person with whom to share their challenges. Social development is an ultimate goal in curbing societal injustices, thus requires better attention than other pillars of development. All in all, man’s effort in globalization makes it easy to reach suicidal people and help them before injury (James & Gilliland, 2012).
References
Christensen, J. F., & Gornila, A. (2012). Moral dilemmas in cognitive and neuroscience of moral decision making: A principled Review. Neuroscience and behavioral reviews 36(2), 1249-1264. Web.
James, K. R & Gilliland, E. B. (2012). Crisis Intervention Strategies (7thEd.). Belmont: Cengage Learning.