Dana Alonzo, Robin E. Gearing

Suicide Assessment and Treatment (eBook, ePUB)

Empirical and Evidence-Based Practices

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The most comprehensive and current evidence-based coverage of suicide treatment and assessment for mental health students and practitioners, this book prepares readers how to react when clients reveal suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The components of suicide assessments, empirically-supported treatments, and ethical and legal issues that may arise are reviewed. Vignettes, role play exercises, quizzes, and case studies engage readers to enhance learning.

Highlights include:

• Provides everything one needs to know about evidence-based suicide treatments including crisis intervention, cognitive-behavioral, dialectical behavior, and interpersonal therapies, and motivational interviewing.
• Examines the risk of suicide ideation and behaviors across the lifespan (children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly) and across vulnerable populations (homeless, prisoners, and more).
• Considers suicide within the context of religion and spirituality, age, race and ethnicity including prevalence, trends, and risk factors.
• Explores ethical considerations such as informed consent, confidentiality, liability, and euthanasia.
• Reviews suicidal behaviors across demographics and diagnostic groups including depressive, bipolar, personality, substance-related, and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.
• Individual and Small Group Exercises allow readers to consider their personal reactions to the material and how this might impact their clinical practice and compare their reactions with others.
• Case Examples that depict realistic scenarios that readers may encounter in practice.
• Role Plays that provide a chance to practice difficult scenarios that may arise when working with suicidal clients.
• Reviews key material in each chapter via Goals and Objectives, Knowledge Acquisition Tests, and Key Points to help students prepare for exams.
• Provides answers to the Knowledge Acquisition Tests in the instructor's resources.

New to this edition:

• Expanded coverage of suicide and mental illness, including updating to the DSM-5 and the addition of new

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826135155
• Artikelnr.: 50462930

Autorenporträt

Dana Alonzo, PhD, LCSW is an Associate Professor at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service and a Founder and Director of the Suicide Prevention Research Program.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Ethical and Philosophical Issues in Suicide
Chapter 2: The Role of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in Suicide
Chapter 3: Religion and Suicide
Part II: Suicidality Across the Life Span
Chapter 4: Child and Adolescent Suicide
Chapter 5: Adult Suicide
Chapter 6: Older Adult Suicide
Part III: Suicide and Mental Illness
Chapter 7: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders and Suicide
Chapter 8: Schizophrenia and Suicide
Chapter 9: Substance-Related Disorders and Suicide
Chapter 10: Personality Disorders and Suicide
Part IV: At-Risk Populations
Chapter 11: Active Military Personnel and Veterans
Chapter 12: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and
Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ)
Chaoter 13: Other At-Risk Groups
Part V: Assessing Suicide
Chapter 14: Guidelines for Suicide Risk Assessment
Part VI: Evidence-Based Treatments
Chapter 15: Crisis Intervention and Suicide
Chapter 16: Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Suicide
Chapter 17: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Suicide
Chapter 18: Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) and Suicide
Chapter 19: Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Suicide
Part VII: Surviving Suicide
Chapter 20: Survivors of Suicide: Family and Friends
Chapter 21: Survivors of Suicide: Mental Health Professionals
References
Index