Brian L Mishara
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 149138 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Brian L Mishara |
| NOMBRES | Brian L |
| APELLIDO | Mishara |
| FIRMA | MISHARA B L |
| AFILIACIONES | Université du Québec à Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2449-6269 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Testimonial of Brian L. Mishara
Testimonial of Brian L. Mishara
Common themes in suicidal expressions of incel forum users
Psychosocial Characteristics of Involuntary Celibates (Incels)
A qualitative study of factors involved in the helping behaviors of suicide prevention gatekeepers
This study explores the factors involved in the capacity of newly trained suicide prevention gatekeepers to engage in the identification and support of people at risk of suicide. In-depth telephone interviews were conducted with 18 gatekeepers from various settings who had participated in a larger quantitative study of the impact of gatekeeper training. Conventional content analysis was performed on the data collected. Participants said that gate…
Characteristics of Incel Forum Users
Incels, Involuntary Celibates, are men who both struggle with lack of sexual and romantic relationships and participate in online communities espousing a misogynistic ideology. This study characterizes users of three popular Incel forums. Using network analysis and community detection, we identify their main issues and interests and assess whether interests predated or followed their initial participation in an Incel forum. Results indicate that …
Quebec population highly supportive of extending Medical Aid in Dying to incapacitated persons and people suffering only from a mental illness
From involuntary incarceration to Medically Assisted Suicide
Involuntary commitment of the mentally ill and forced treatment of suicidal persons are practiced worldwide, with underlying premises that contrast with the respect for autonomy upon which Medically Assisted Death (MAD) (euthanasia and assisted suicide) for the mentally ill is based. We trace the transition from paternalistic mass incarcerations to hospitalization only for dangerousness. In response to criticisms that predicting dangerousness is …
Le suicide et les aînés au Québec
Les aînés québécois, malgré de nombreux facteurs de risque et leur faible utilisation des professionnels en santé mentale et des centres de prévention du suicide, se suicident moins que d’autres groupes d’âge, sont les plus satisfaits de leurs relations familiales et de leur réseau et connaissent le moins de détresse psychologique. Cependant, les facteurs importants de risque du suicide (par exemple, les pertes) sont souvent présents. La générati…
Les médicaments dans le suicide
L’utilisation des médicaments, et notamment des psychotropes, dans la vie courante a entraîné des changements importants dans la problématique du suicide : pour la première fois, un moyen thérapeutique est utilisé pour se donner la mort et la proportion de tentatives non létales pour chaque décès par suicide a augmenté énormément. Les médicaments constituent le troisième mode de suicide au Canada comme en France, et ils sont impliqués dans plus d…
Canadian and Dutch doctors’ roles in assistance in dying
Clinical correlates of suicidality among individuals with HIV infection and Aids disease in Mbarara, Uganda
The association between suicidality and HIV/AIDS has been demonstrated for three decades, but little is know about risk factors that can help understand this association and help identify who is most at risk. Few research studies have been conducted in sub-Saharan Africa, a region that accounts for more than 70% of the HIV global burden. This paper describes clinical risk factors for suicidality among individuals with HIV infection and AIDS disea…
Can CCTV identify people in public transit stations who are at risk of attempting suicide? An analysis of CCTV video recordings of attempters and a comparative investigation
We conclude that real time observations of CCTV monitors, automated computer monitoring of CCTV signals, and/or training of drivers and transit personnel on behavioural indications of suicide risk, may identify attempters with few false positives, and potentially save lives
Legalization of euthanasia in Quebec, Canada as “medical aid in dying”
A Dynamic Developmental Model of Suicide
Based on the work by Prigogine and colleagues from physics and other ‘hard’ sciences, a method is presented for studying and developing models of the dynamics of developmental changes in complex open systems. The process of the development of suicide is analysed in terms of a dynamic model of changes in suicidal tendencies over time. Phase plane analysis based on this model indicates that fluctuations and discontinuities observed in clinical and …
L’écologie familiale et la consommation de médicaments chez les personnes âgées
Une recension des recherches sur l'utilisation des médicaments chez les personnes âgées de 1986 à 1996 confirme les résultats de recension jusqu'à 1986 (Mishara et McKim, 1989) : peu de recherches empiriques portent sur le rôle de la famille dans les patrons d'utilisation des médicaments chez les aînés. Cet article résume brièvement des études sur les facteurs liés à une bonne utilisation des médicaments ainsi que les programmes de prévention de …
Confusion Between Euthanasia and Other End-of-Life Decisions
Le soutien social peut-il protéger les hommes de la tentative de suicide
Cette étude tente d’examiner si le soutien social peut constituer un facteur de protection de la tentative de suicide chez les hommes et, le cas échéant, à identifier quelles sont les formes et les sources de soutien les plus importantes. Elle compare deux groupes d’hommes qui ont vécu des événements de vie sévères au cours des 12 derniers mois : 40 hommes admis à l’urgence d’un hôpital suite à une tentative de suicide et 40 hommes sans antécéden…
Effectiveness of a mental health promotion program to improve coping skills in young children
The impact of media coverage of the suicide of a well-known Quebec reporter
Des pratiques novatrices pour la prévention du suicide au Québec
Le suicide est un problème différent et particulier. C’est un événement rare et multi-déterminé qui soulève à la fois des questions déontologiques et pratiques en recherche tout en constituant un événement désastreux consciemment choisi par les victimes. Chacune de ses caractéristiques pose des défis et représente des occasions intéressantes d’innovation. Cet article décrit la spécificité de la problématique du suicide et explique le peu d’innova…
Effects of Different Telephone Intervention Styles with Suicidal Callers at Two Suicide Prevention Centers
To determine the relative effectiveness of telephone intervention styles with suicidal callers, researchers listened unobtrusively to 617 calls by suicidal persons at two suicide prevention centers and categorized all 66,953 responses by the 110 volunteer helpers according to a reliable 20‐category checklist. Outcome measures showed observer evaluations of decreased depressive mood from the beginning to the end in 14% of calls, decreased suicidal…
Thanatology Research from Québec
Researchers must be acutely aware of the emotional, environmental, and cultural context of studies as well as the dynamic interactions which are continually changing this context. This characterization of a major trend in French-speaking research in Quebec is well exemplified by the series of lectures on Death, Distress, and Solidarity that gave rise to the articles published in this special issue of Omega. The contributors have attempted to inco…
The Development of the Concept of Suicide in Children
This study evaluated the development of the concept of suicide in sixty children ages six to eleven. It was hypothesized that children's understanding of the concept of suicide would be related to their age, cognitive development, maturity of the concept of death, experiences with death and suicide, and attitudes toward suicide. Twenty children in each of the grades one, three, and five were interviewed using open-ended and structured questions t…
Aging and Ethnicity
Kinesthetic Aftereffects and Individual Differences in Carryover effects
Prior research has found that individual differences in long-lasting carryover effects occur in the kinesthetic aftereffect (KAE) task both when the aftereffect inducing block was wider (I greater than T) and narrower (I less than T) than the test block. The present study found that such individual differences in carryover effects also occur for a no-aftereffect-induction control condition, with a magnitude approximately equal to that found for t…
Confusion Between Euthanasia and Other End-of-Life Decisions
The impact of media coverage of the suicide of a well-known Quebec reporter
Characteristics of Incel Forum Users
Incels, Involuntary Celibates, are men who both struggle with lack of sexual and romantic relationships and participate in online communities espousing a misogynistic ideology. This study characterizes users of three popular Incel forums. Using network analysis and community detection, we identify their main issues and interests and assess whether interests predated or followed their initial participation in an Incel forum. Results indicate that …
Effectiveness of a mental health promotion program to improve coping skills in young children
Effects of Different Telephone Intervention Styles with Suicidal Callers at Two Suicide Prevention Centers
To determine the relative effectiveness of telephone intervention styles with suicidal callers, researchers listened unobtrusively to 617 calls by suicidal persons at two suicide prevention centers and categorized all 66,953 responses by the 110 volunteer helpers according to a reliable 20‐category checklist. Outcome measures showed observer evaluations of decreased depressive mood from the beginning to the end in 14% of calls, decreased suicidal…
Kinesthetic aftereffect and personality
Kinesthetic Aftereffect (KAE), once a promising personality index, has been abandoned by many investigators because of poor retest reliability and intermittent validity. In challenging this current consensus, we argue that (a) first-session KAE is valid; (b) poor retest reliability simply reflects later-session bias; (c) hence, multisession studies should not be used to assess validity without taking this bias into account. Those recent studies w…
Alcohol effects in old age
Research on Attitudes of Medical Doctors toward the Dying Patient
From a sample of seventy-three medical doctors, thirteen interviews were conducted regarding the physician's attitudes toward the dying patient. A majority of those refusing interviews did so only when the nature of the topic of discussion was revealed. This research experience indicates a general reluctance on the part of physicians to discuss their attitudes toward death. Contradictions revealed in the responses of the physicians who were inter…
Alcohol effects in old age
Kinesthetic aftereffect and personality
Kinesthetic Aftereffect (KAE), once a promising personality index, has been abandoned by many investigators because of poor retest reliability and intermittent validity. In challenging this current consensus, we argue that (a) first-session KAE is valid; (b) poor retest reliability simply reflects later-session bias; (c) hence, multisession studies should not be used to assess validity without taking this bias into account. Those recent studies w…
When “reliability” fails, must a measure be discarded?—The case of Kinesthetic Aftereffect
Kinaesthetic after‐effect, organismic state and retest reliability
Earlier research demonstrated that exposure to the first administration of the kinaesthetic after‐effect (KAE) task differentially biases second (and later) session KAE scores. This bias results in low retest reliability. Here we explore the hypothesis that variation in organismic state also affects KAE retest reliability. A significant retest correlation was found for subjects classified as consistent in organismic state ( r = 0·349), but not fo…
Menstrual cycle affects kinesthetic aftereffect, an index of personality and perceptual style
Research suggests that kinesthetic aftereffect (KAE) scores reflect status on a postulated stimulus intensity modulation (SIM) mechanism that damps down subjective stimulus intensity for some (reducing) and increases it for others (augmenting). Such a mechanism would help account for empirically observed individual differences in such behaviors as pain tolerance, sensory deprivation reactivity, and stimulation seeking. It was hypothesized and con…
Suicide and Culture
College students' experiences with suicide and reactions to suicidal verbalizations
This paper describes experiences with suicidality among college students. Of 140 students in two samples who responded to questionnaires, all but 13 reported contact with peers who expressed suicidal intentions or attempted suicide, and/or expressed suicidal feelings or attempted suicide themselves. These verbalizations of suicidal feelings and attempts are described, and a model of the effectiveness of prevention of suicide by means of appropria…
Kinesthetic Aftereffects and Individual Differences in Carryover effects
Prior research has found that individual differences in long-lasting carryover effects occur in the kinesthetic aftereffect (KAE) task both when the aftereffect inducing block was wider (I greater than T) and narrower (I less than T) than the test block. The present study found that such individual differences in carryover effects also occur for a no-aftereffect-induction control condition, with a magnitude approximately equal to that found for t…
Aging and Ethnicity
The Development of the Concept of Suicide in Children
This study evaluated the development of the concept of suicide in sixty children ages six to eleven. It was hypothesized that children's understanding of the concept of suicide would be related to their age, cognitive development, maturity of the concept of death, experiences with death and suicide, and attitudes toward suicide. Twenty children in each of the grades one, three, and five were interviewed using open-ended and structured questions t…
Thanatology Research from Québec
Researchers must be acutely aware of the emotional, environmental, and cultural context of studies as well as the dynamic interactions which are continually changing this context. This characterization of a major trend in French-speaking research in Quebec is well exemplified by the series of lectures on Death, Distress, and Solidarity that gave rise to the articles published in this special issue of Omega. The contributors have attempted to inco…
Effects of Different Telephone Intervention Styles with Suicidal Callers at Two Suicide Prevention Centers
To determine the relative effectiveness of telephone intervention styles with suicidal callers, researchers listened unobtrusively to 617 calls by suicidal persons at two suicide prevention centers and categorized all 66,953 responses by the 110 volunteer helpers according to a reliable 20‐category checklist. Outcome measures showed observer evaluations of decreased depressive mood from the beginning to the end in 14% of calls, decreased suicidal…
Des pratiques novatrices pour la prévention du suicide au Québec
Le suicide est un problème différent et particulier. C’est un événement rare et multi-déterminé qui soulève à la fois des questions déontologiques et pratiques en recherche tout en constituant un événement désastreux consciemment choisi par les victimes. Chacune de ses caractéristiques pose des défis et représente des occasions intéressantes d’innovation. Cet article décrit la spécificité de la problématique du suicide et explique le peu d’innova…
The impact of media coverage of the suicide of a well-known Quebec reporter
Le soutien social peut-il protéger les hommes de la tentative de suicide
Cette étude tente d’examiner si le soutien social peut constituer un facteur de protection de la tentative de suicide chez les hommes et, le cas échéant, à identifier quelles sont les formes et les sources de soutien les plus importantes. Elle compare deux groupes d’hommes qui ont vécu des événements de vie sévères au cours des 12 derniers mois : 40 hommes admis à l’urgence d’un hôpital suite à une tentative de suicide et 40 hommes sans antécéden…
Effectiveness of a mental health promotion program to improve coping skills in young children
Confusion Between Euthanasia and Other End-of-Life Decisions
L’écologie familiale et la consommation de médicaments chez les personnes âgées
Une recension des recherches sur l'utilisation des médicaments chez les personnes âgées de 1986 à 1996 confirme les résultats de recension jusqu'à 1986 (Mishara et McKim, 1989) : peu de recherches empiriques portent sur le rôle de la famille dans les patrons d'utilisation des médicaments chez les aînés. Cet article résume brièvement des études sur les facteurs liés à une bonne utilisation des médicaments ainsi que les programmes de prévention de …
A Dynamic Developmental Model of Suicide
Based on the work by Prigogine and colleagues from physics and other ‘hard’ sciences, a method is presented for studying and developing models of the dynamics of developmental changes in complex open systems. The process of the development of suicide is analysed in terms of a dynamic model of changes in suicidal tendencies over time. Phase plane analysis based on this model indicates that fluctuations and discontinuities observed in clinical and …
Legalization of euthanasia in Quebec, Canada as “medical aid in dying”
Clinical correlates of suicidality among individuals with HIV infection and Aids disease in Mbarara, Uganda
The association between suicidality and HIV/AIDS has been demonstrated for three decades, but little is know about risk factors that can help understand this association and help identify who is most at risk. Few research studies have been conducted in sub-Saharan Africa, a region that accounts for more than 70% of the HIV global burden. This paper describes clinical risk factors for suicidality among individuals with HIV infection and AIDS disea…
Can CCTV identify people in public transit stations who are at risk of attempting suicide? An analysis of CCTV video recordings of attempters and a comparative investigation
We conclude that real time observations of CCTV monitors, automated computer monitoring of CCTV signals, and/or training of drivers and transit personnel on behavioural indications of suicide risk, may identify attempters with few false positives, and potentially save lives
Canadian and Dutch doctors’ roles in assistance in dying
Les médicaments dans le suicide
L’utilisation des médicaments, et notamment des psychotropes, dans la vie courante a entraîné des changements importants dans la problématique du suicide : pour la première fois, un moyen thérapeutique est utilisé pour se donner la mort et la proportion de tentatives non létales pour chaque décès par suicide a augmenté énormément. Les médicaments constituent le troisième mode de suicide au Canada comme en France, et ils sont impliqués dans plus d…
Psychology (26 obras) · Medicine (16 obras) · Psychiatry (12 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (11 obras) · Clinical Psychology (8 obras) · Developmental psychology (8 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Poison control (7 obras)