Suicide and Self Harm
Assessing and Treating Suicidal Thinking and Behaviors in Children and Adolescents: A Play Therapy Guide for Mental Health Professionals in Clinical and School-Based Settings
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Expressive therapists, school-based counselors, and other clinicians who work with at-risk children and adolescents from diverse communities and backgrounds will come away from this book with the tools they need to integrate the individual child’s capabilities, sources of distress, and internal and external resources in order to build a developmentally sensitive treatment plan.
When Teens Self-Harm: How Parents, Teachers and Professionals Can Provide Calm and Compassionate Support
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Grounded in the authors’ extensive clinical experience in young people’s mental health, this book guides you out of panic mode to create a secure, validating environment for teens who self-harm.
Managing Suicidal Risk, Third Edition: A Collaborative Approach
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Now in an extensively revised third edition with 65% new material, this is the authoritative presentation of the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) therapeutic framework.
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Cutting Down: An Evidence-based CBT Workbook for Treating Young People Who Self-harm (2nd Edition)
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Cutting Down providesa practical and accessible treatment programme based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) principles for young people who self-harm.
DBT and Art for Youth Suicide Prevention: When Art Saves Lives
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Using art therapy, lived experience, and DBT skills in combination, this book offers insight into how, together, these methods can help prevent youth suicide.
Suicidal Behavior
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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.
Handbook of Youth Suicide Prevention: Integrating Research into Practice
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The Handbook of Youth Suicide Prevention is an essential resource for researchers, professors, graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental psychology, social work, public health, pediatrics, family studies, child and adolescent psychiatry, school and educational psychology, and all interrelated disciplines.
Perspectives on a Young Woman’s Suicide: A Study of a Diary
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Perspectives on a Young Woman’s Suicide is a unique and updated analysis of a diary left behind by “Katie,” a young woman who took her own life.
Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better
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An examination of how suicide prevention efforts largely fail due to the mistaken assumption that greater mental health awareness is the key to saving lives.
Preventing and Responding to Student Suicide: A Practical Guide for FE and HE Settings
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This practical book covers issues related to suicide risk, prevention and postvention in Higher and Further Education communities. Compiled by 37 experts, it is an authoritative guide to an issue that is causing increasingly large concern for FE and HE institutions and covers multiple evidence-backed approaches with a pragmatic focus. It is the first that specifically deals with student suicide in FE Colleges and universities, encouraging a holistic, institutional response.
Life after a partner’s suicide attempt
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Life After a Partner’s Suicide Attempt is the first publication to document in depth the lived experiences of the partners of individuals who have attempted to take their own lives. Although no one has died, the ramifications are, nonetheless, life changing and permanent. Research in suicidology has paid virtually no attention to these partners, other than to explore their role as caregiver.
Suicide in Children and Adolescents: New Interventions and Risk Factors
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This book highlights the current epidemiology of suicide among children and adolescents, as well as identifying important risk factors and evidence-based treatment options. To accomplish this, this book is organized into two major sections: (1) contributing factors to the emergence of child and adolescent suicide, and (2) evidence-based treatment of child and adolescent suicide.
Helping People Overcome Suicidal Thoughts, Urges and Behaviour: Suicide-focused Intervention Skills for Health and Social Care Professionals
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Helping People Overcome Suicidal Thoughts, Urges and Behaviour draws together practical and effective approaches to help individuals at risk of suicide.
Responding After Suicide: A Practical Guide to Immediate Postvention
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This practical guide about what first responders should do after a suicide, offers advice on identifying and recording a death as suicide, breaking the bad news and dealing with the impact of suicide in the short, middle and long term. Drawing on her own experience as a first responder and trainer, the author provides guidance and tips for best practice when responding to a suicide.
Suicide Prevention Techniques: How a Suicide Crisis Service Saves Lives
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Focusing on the methods used at a ground-breaking Suicide Crisis Centre which has a zero suicide achievement, this guide offers strategies to help people in suicidal crisis. Founded after the author’s own suicidal experience, it challenges the established ways of working in mental health and sets out a new way to provide crisis care.
Helping the Suicidal Person: Tips and Techniques for Professionals
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The book first covers the need for professionals to examine their own personal experiences and fears around suicide, moves into essential areas of risk assessment, safety planning, and treatment planning, and then provides a rich assortment of tips for reducing the person’s suicidal danger and rebuilding the wish to live.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy with People at Risk of Suicide
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Grounded in extensive research and clinical experience, this book describes how to adapt mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for participants who struggle with recurrent suicidal thoughts and impulses.
Out of This World: Suicide Examined
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This book is intended for anyone with either an interest in suicide or suicidal behaviour. It is not aimed solely at the professional psychotherapist but at a broad range of professionals who encounter suicidal people in their work.
Working in the Dark: Understanding the Pre-Suicide State of Mind
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Working in the Dark focuses on the authors’ understanding of an individual’s pre-suicide state of mind, based on their work with many suicidal individuals, with special attention to those who attempted suicide while in treatment.
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: Wellness Perspectives on Behaviors, Symptoms, and Diagnosis
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The book covers topics not previously discussed in other works, including working with families, supervising counselors working with clients who self-injure, DSM-5 criteria regarding the NSSI diagnosis, NSSI as a protective factor for preventing suicidal behavior, and advocacy efforts around NSSI.
Understanding and Treating Self-Injurious Behavior in Autism: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective
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The book will be an invaluable addition to the bookshelves of any practitioner working with people with an ASD or related condition, as well as parents and direct care providers.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Preventing Suicide Attempts: A Guide to Brief Treatments Across Clinical Settings
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Preventing Suicide Attempts consolidates the accumulated knowledge and efforts of leading suicide researchers, and describes how a common, cognitive behavioral model of suicide has resulted in 50% or greater reductions in suicide attempts across clinical settings.
Cry of Pain: Understanding Suicide and the Suicidal Mind
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Cry of Pain examines the evidence from a social, psychological and biological perspective to see if there are common features that might shed light on suicide.
Self-Harm and Eating Disorders in Schools: A Guide to Whole-School Strategies and Practical Support
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This book provides the vital guidance that school staff need to spot early warning signs, understand triggers and support the students in their care effectively.