Suicide risk management : a manual for health professionals /

• Main Author: Chehil, Sonia
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kutcher, Stanley P.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Subjects: Suicide > Prevention.; Suicide > Risk factors.; Risk assessment.; Suicide > prevention & control.; Suicide > psychology.; Risk Assessment > methods.; Suicide > prevention and control.; PSYCHOLOGY > Suicide.; Electronic books.

This highly practical book explains how to identify and manage suicidal individuals and supports the health professional in assisting the patient to choose life rather than death.

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter
• The Importance of Suicide Awareness and Assessment
• Understanding Suicide Risk
• Suicide Risk Assessment
• Putting It All Together: Tool for Assessment of Suicide Risk (TASR)
• Special Topics in Understanding and Evaluating Suicide Risk
• Suicide Prevention
• Suicide Intervention
• Post-Suicide Intervention: Caring for Survivors
• Care for the Carer: Death of a Patient by Suicide
• Clinical Vignettes for Group or Individual Study
• Appendix A: Tool for Assessment of Suicide Risk (TASR)
• Appendix B: 6-ITEM Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale: KADS
• Appendix C: My Safety Plan
• Index.
• Importance of suicide awareness & assessment
• Understanding suicide risk
• Suicide risk assessment
• Putting it all together : tool for assessment of suicide risk (TASR)
• Special topics in understanding & evaluating suicide risk
• Suicide prevention
• Suicide intervention
• Post-suicide intervention : caring for the survivor
• Care for the carer : death of a patient by suicide
• Clinical vignettes for group or individual study.