LAWS 3501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Risk Assessment, Problem Solving, Effect Size
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Suzanne killinger-johnson was a physician with a psychotherapy practice in toronto. She had a history of depression while in medical school at the university of western. She had a successful marriage, a flourishing career, and supportive family and friends. In february 2000, she gave birth to a son named cuyler. Sometime after the birth, suzanne started to become more and more obsessive about caring for cuyler: by the spring, she started to see a therapist and was taking medication for depression. In july, suzanne stopped taking her antidepressants because she was worried about the effects of the medicine in her breast milk. Suzanne"s depression was assumed to be a contributing factor in the death of her and her infant son. Stranger homicides only make up about 15% of all homicides in canada (perreault, 2012) Intimate partner homicides occur in canada, typically involving wives as victims.
