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Comprehensive Guide to Suicidal Behaviours: Working with Individuals at

Risk and their Families
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Over a million people commit suicide worldwide every year. For this reason and many others besides, a better universal awareness of the act of suicide is vital. This book sensitively and intelligently covers issues associated with suicide, seeking to facilitate understanding and enable effective communication with those who may be considering it.Backed up by research and clinical expertise the book clarifies the facts about suicide and breaks down the many unfounded myths surrounding the subject. It describes the warning signs to look out for and their many manifestations, proven intervention and management strategies, methods of communicating with depressed patients and how to support those coping with bereavement. The book discusses the possible impact of technological developments and the internet on the suicidal individual and answers key questions relating to genetics and suicide and groups most at risk.This book will be essential reading for anybody working with people at risk of committing suicide, including clinicians, therapists, psychologists and social and healthcare workers and volunteers working in suicide prevention.
1. Introduction; the individual in a process of escalating distress. 2. Suicidal behaviour in a historical context. 3. Classifications of suicide. 4. Myths about suicide. 5. Talking about suicidal ideas. 6. Suicide risk groups. 7. Protective factors in suicidal behaviour. 8. Family problems. 9. The survivor and complicated grief. 10. Psychotherapy for suicidal people in crisis. 11. The Internet: new possibilities, problems and challenges in the prevention of suicide. 12. Recommendations for a suicide prevention strategy. Appendix 1. A model of the systemic management of distress. Appendix 2. Glossary of terms. Useful reading.
Although this book is primarily aimed at those working with individuals at risk and their families, it is a book that could be of value to all who have suffered loss through suicide and who seek to answer the unanswerable question 'why?'. This is a good book full of useful information, clarifying many unfounded myths and giving helpful advice and aids. It is a book essential for those working in the field of suicide prevention but could also be of value to those who have suffered a loss through suicide.
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