Full Description
By integrating sociological, psychological, and biological perspectives, this book aims to demystify and destigmatize a challenging and taboo topic - suicide. It weaves current theories and statistics on suicide into a larger message of how suicide can affect almost anyone, and how urgent prevention needs are. Written in an accessible manner, it assumes no pre-existing knowledge of suicide. The broad nontechnical overview will appeal to general readers and a wide range of disciplines, including politics and policy, biology, psychology, sociology, and psychiatry. It concludes on a positive note, focused on recovery, resilience, and hope. It considers not only how these factors may play a role in suicide prevention, but how, despite persistent suicide rates, we can proceed optimistically and take concrete action to support loved ones or promote suicide prevention efforts.
Contents
1. A Brief View on the Social History of Suicide; 2. Pain, Suffering, and Buffering; 3. Allostasis: The Biology and Neuroscience of Suicide; 4. Suicide Demographics in the United States; 5. Prevention, Identification, and Intervention; 6. Building Resilient Individuals, Communities, and Societies to Prevent Suicide; 7. Hope; References; Index.
