A relevância contemporânea na compreensão dos fatores psicossociais imbricados no fenômeno da ideação suicida e suicídio entre jovens adultos

Abstract

From Émile Durkheim, a French sociologist who, at the end of the 19th century (1897), addressed the theme in “Le suicide” to Edwin Shneidman, one of the psychologists in reference for working on investigating the phenomenon, to which he coined the term Suicidology, transiting among other contemporary theorists; that denote that the fateful phenomenon persists, as a personal, social and political tragedy, affecting human beings in the public and private sphere. The prevention is in offering help to individuals in time to avoid the act. Contemporary demand for psychology; and, psychotherapies in their diverse approaches. This work seeks to understand the psychosocial factors involved in the phenomenon of suicidal ideation and suicide in young adults. In a dual scenario, during a global pandemic of a lethal virus, called COVID 19, which affects an entire generation that, in this social context, are already living in adulthood the epidemic of those who idealize and commit the act of selfextermination in their most productive and significant in terms of its performance in the world.