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David Lester
Researcher at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Publications - 2257
Citations - 34574
David Lester is an academic researcher from Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Suicide prevention. The author has an hindex of 66, co-authored 2183 publications receiving 32010 citations. Previous affiliations of David Lester include University of New South Wales & Wellesley College.
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The measurement of pessimism: the hopelessness scale.
TL;DR: A scale designed to quantify hopelessness was administered to several diverse samples of patients to assess its psychometric properties and was found to have a high degree of internal consistency and showed a relatively high correlation with the clinical ratings of hopelessness and other self-administered measures of despair.
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The Fear of Death and the Fear of Dying
Lora-Jean Collett,David Lester +1 more
TL;DR: The Fear of Death and the Fear of Dying: A Treatise on the Psychology of Fear, Volume 2, pp. 179-181.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide risk: a systematic review.
Karolina Krysinska,David Lester +1 more
TL;DR: The evidence indicates that there is an association between PTSD and suicidality with several factors, such as concurrent depression and the pre-trauma psychiatric condition, possibly mediating this relationship.
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Suicidal Behavior and Alcohol Abuse
Maurizio Pompili,Gianluca Serafini,Marco Innamorati,Giovanni Dominici,Stefano Ferracuti,Giorgio D. Kotzalidis,Giulia Serra,Paolo Girardi,Luigi Janiri,Roberto Tatarelli,Leo Sher,David Lester +11 more
TL;DR: Evidence of the relationship between alcohol use and suicide through a search of MedLine and PsychInfo electronic databases is reviewed and multiple genetically-related intermediate phenotypes might influence the relationshipBetween alcohol and suicide.
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Suicide risk in schizophrenia: learning from the past to change the future
Maurizio Pompili,Maurizio Pompili,Xavier F. Amador,Paolo Girardi,Jill M. Harkavy-Friedman,Martin Harrow,Kalman J. Kaplan,Michael Krausz,David Lester,Herbert Y. Meltzer,Jiri Modestin,Lori P. Montross,Preben Bo Mortensen,Povl Munk-Jørgensen,Jimmi Nielsen,Merete Nordentoft,Pirjo Irmeli Saarinen,Sidney Zisook,Scott T Wilson,Roberto Tatarelli +19 more
TL;DR: This is the first attempt to present a consensus report as well as the development of a set of guidelines for reducing suicide risk among schizophenia patients.