A practical and easy-to-use guide for healthcare professionals on the prevention, assessment and treatment of people at risk of suicide.
Provides information on suicide statistics and gives advice on how to recognize the warning signs of a potential suicide attempt, how to intervene when a suicide has been attempted, and how to comfort families and friends who have lost a ...
With this book, any school community that takes suicide prevention seriously will have access the knowledge, tools and resources to save lives.
The International Handbook of Suicide Prevention, 2nd Edition, presents a series of readings that consider the individual and societal factors that lead to suicide, it addresses ways these factors may be mitigated, and presents the most up ...
A Case Study. Dr. Brown described a study designed to prevent aggression involving approximately 1000 children in ... Second, “the onset of [substance] dependence and abuse actually occurred most often after the first suicide attempt.
Vignettes and suicide prevention measures are provided to bring to life the interventions a concerned other can make that could save a life. This book could be the most valuable and impactful read in a young adult's life.
Argues that schools have a much larger role to play in the prevention of suicide among children and adolescents than they have generally undertaken hitherto.
"When I joined the Air Force in 2005, hostilities in Iraq were escalating, resulting in more frequent and longer deployments for just about everyone serving in the military, including psychologists.
Suicide impacts on the most vulnerable of the world's populations and is highly prevalent in already marginalized and discriminated groups of society.
It also acknowledges the critical interrelationships among SA, mental illness and suicide risk. Explores suicide prevention within the public health context of behavioral health promotion and illness prevention. Illustrations.
This book explains their ethos, how they work and the ways in which their services operate. The idea for the service grew out of the author's own lived experience of suicidal crisis, and her inability to find the right kind of help.