Main description:

Learn how to assess and treat clients at risk of suicide:

* Incorporates the latest research
* Highlights the best risk assessment and treatment practices
* Presents new models explaining the development of suicidal ideation
* Clear guidance on crisis management and documentation
* Full of hands-on tips, case examples, and clinical pearls

With more than 800,000 deaths worldwide each year, suicide is one of the leading causes of death. The second edition of this volume incorporates the latest research, showing which empirically supported approaches to assessment, management, and treatment really help those at risk. Updates include comprehensively updated epidemiological data, the role opioid use problems, personality disorders, and trauma play in suicide, new models explaining the development of suicidal ideation, and the zero suicide model. This book aims to increase clinicians' access to empirically supported interventions for suicidal behavior, with the hope that these methods will become the standard in clinical practice.

The book is invaluable as a compact how-to reference for clinicians in their daily work and as an educational resource for students and for practice-oriented continuing education. It's reader-friendly structure makes liberal use of tables, boxed clinical examples, and clinical vignettes. The book, which also addresses common obstacles in treating individuals at risk for suicide, is an essential resource for anyone working with this high-risk population.

Contents:

1 Description
1.1 Terminology
1.2 Definition
1.3 Differential Diagnosis
1.4 Epidemiology
1.5 Course and Prognosis
1.6 Comorbidities
1.7 Assessment Procedures
2 Theories and Models of Suicidal Behavior
2.1 Neuropsychiatric Theories
2.2 Psychological Theories
3 Risk Assessment and Treatment Planning
3.1 Assessing Suicide Risk and Protective Factors
3.2 Estimating Suicide Risk Level
3.3 Resolving Contradictory Risk Factors
3.4 Understanding the Time Dimension of Suicide Risk
3.5 Documenting Suicidal Risk
4 Treatment
4.1 Methods of Treatment
4.1.1 Multiphase Models
4.1.2 Orientation and Engagement.
4.2 Crisis Intervention and the Management of Acute Risk
4.2.1 Assuring Telephone Accessibility After Hours
4.2.2 Suicide Prevention Hotlines
4.2.3 Emergency Appointment Capability
4.2.4 Use of the Emergency Department
4.2.5 Psychiatric Emergency Services
4.2.6 Involuntary Hospitalization and the Use of the Police
4.2.7 Use of Mobile Outreach Services
4.3 Safety Planning
4.3.1 Involving Family and Friends
4.3.2 Means Restriction
4.3.3 Safety Planning Versus No-Suicide Contracts
4.4 Treatment Techniques
4.4.1 Skills Training
4.4.2 Self-Monitoring/Homework Assignments
4.4.3 Cognitive Interventions
4.4.4 Exposure Treatment
4.4.5 Reducing Perceived Burdensomeness
4.4.6 Failed Belongingness
4.4.7 Bibliotherapy and Online Resources
4.4.8 Outreach and Follow-up
4.4.9 Postvention
4.5 Mechanisms of Action
4.6 Efficacy and Prognosis
4.7 Variations and Combinations of Methods
4.7.1 The Zero Suicide Model
4.7.2 Medication and Psychotherapy
4.7.3 Working with Families
4.7.4 Treatment of Adolescents
4.7.5 Individual and Group Treatment
4.8 Problems in Carrying Out the Treatments
4.8.1 Problems in Communication and Information Gathering
4.8.2 Problems in Continuity of Care
4.8.3 Problems in Initial Risk Assessment
4.8.4 Problems in Collaboration
4.9 Multicultural Issues
5 Case Vignette
6 Case Example
7 Further Reading
8 References
9 Appendices: Tools and Resources