PSY-3635 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Suicidal Ideation, Gun Safe, Domestic Violence

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology (A&S)
• Course: PSY-3635
• Professor: Schlundt David

Document Summary

Overview: guns and public health, model of risky behaviors, examine risk factors for pulling the trigger , think about interventions and solutions. Guns and america: americans have a unique history and relationship with guns. Identifying risky behaviors and risky situations that need to be changed. Reducing firearm death and injury: wally wakes up to the sound of breaking glass downstairs at his house. He opens the bedside table, grabs his pistol, pulls on his pants, and heads downstairs to investigate . There is an intruder who gained entry by breaking a window. His teenage daughter came home drunk and knocked over a vase. Fear + middle of night + available firearm + little time to decide. Another scenario: roger"s wife was very late coming home from work. Roger, who was drinking heavily, accused her of having an affair. She pulls a knife out of the kitchen drawer and points it at him screaming that she hates him.