Main description:

This book explores suicide prevention perspectives from around the world, considering both professionals' points of view as well as first-person accounts from suicidal individuals.

Scholars around the globe have puzzled over what makes a person suicidal and what is in the minds of those individuals who die by suicide. Most often the focus is not on the motives for suicide, nor on the phenomenology of this act, but on what is found from small cohorts of suicidal individuals.

This book offers a tentative synthesis of a complex phenomenon, and sheds some light on models of suicide that are less frequently encountered in the literature.

Written by international experts, it makes a valuable contribution to the field of suicidology that appeals to a wide readership, from mental health professionals to researchers in suicidology and students.

Contents:

Theories and models of suicidal behaviour.- Neurobiological approach to the study of suicide.- The Journey Back from Suicide.- Suicide as Syndemic.- NSSI as an Entrypoint for Prevention with Adolescents and Young Adults.- Resilience Following a Suicide Attempt.- The Problems of the Unified Registrations of Suicide.- Risk and Protective Factors of Suicide from a Cultural Perspective.- Inadequacy of Training for Addressing Suicide.- Protective Factors Against Suicidal Behavior.- Psychological pain as main ingredient of suicide risk.- Reasons for living in suicide prevention.- Suicide risk formulation.- The Modular Assessment of Risk for Imminent Suicide (MARIS).- How to ask about suicide.- Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality approach.- Differentiation of suicidal behaviour in clinical practice.- Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale.- Postdiction in the PA: A cue or formula.- Trauma and Suicide.