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Intention, Motivation and Intervention

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This chapter describes intention, motivation and intervention in regard to suicide and separates these processes into medical suicide and instrumental suicide. The purpose of this chapter is to connect facets of understanding regarding suicide to the act of violence transformation. Learning from other fields, suicide, as a topical focus of attention, presents PACS pracademics with opportunities to develop strategies that decrease violence associated with life-ending acts. PACS is a field that seeks not only to recognize violence but to transform violence into nonviolence or ways of engaging with one another that are life-affirming and non-harmful. This chapter looks at how the processes of intention, motivation and intervention can inform transformative considerations and practices in PACS.

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Standish, K. (2020). Intention, Motivation and Intervention. In: Suicide through a Peacebuilding Lens . Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9737-0_7

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