군 사망사건에서 심리부검 활용실태와 발전방안

초록

About 60 suicides occur annually in the military, and suicide accounts for the largest proportion of all deaths in the military. In addition, the importance of preventing military suicide has increased due to the decrease in military resources and changes in the internal and external environment due to low birthrates. Therefore, elaborate prevention measures should be prepared based on more scientific and systematic analysis. Psychological autopsy is a scientific analysis of the psychological and behavioral characteristics of the dead, and is being actively studied to identify the cause of death and prevent suicide. Since the military introduced a psychological autopsy by the military's investigation committee in 2008, psychological autopsy has been mainly used by military investigative agencies to determine the cause of death. This study was conducted for the purpose of analyzing the actual state and problems of the use of psychological autopsy in military death cases and suggesting development plans. For the study, data surveys such as interviews with military investigative agency officials and psychological autopsy reports were conducted. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the use of psychological autopsy is mainly limited to the purpose of investigation and standardized procedures have not been established in the military. As a development plan for this, we suggested that the military psychological autopsy paradigm should be changed so that psychological autopsy can be used from the perspective of suicide prevention, and we also suggested improvement measures for each preparation/request stage, implementation stage, and utilization stage.

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