Full Description
The current suicide public health crisis and advances in clinical practice have increased the need for clear, evidence-informed guidance on suicide prevention in healthcare. This clinical suicide prevention handbook is an essential resource for mental health and primary care professionals, and any practitioner aiming to ensure their practice is up-to-date, patient-centred and consistent with the most current standards of care. Starting with a summary of the science and public health model of suicide, the book offers quick tips for suicide screening, risk assessment, interventions, and follow-up communication. It discusses medicolegal risk management, how health systems can prevent suicide and provides highly specialized guidance for clinicians following the loss of a patient to suicide. Focused sections include incorporating social media into care plans, telemedicine, issues related to culture and race/ethnicity, and working with specific populations. It introduces an integrated, prevention-oriented approach to suicide prevention, incorporating realistic supports, foreseeable changes, and strategies.
Contents
Part I. Suicide Prevention Overview: 1. Translating Science into Action; 2. Dispelling Myths; 3. Public Health Model of Suicide; 4. Understanding Why: Drivers of Suicide Risk; Part II. Clinical Risk Assessment and Care: 5. Collaborative Connections; 6. Prevention Oriented Suicide Risk Assessment; 7. Responding to Suicide Risk; 8. Extending Care Beyond the Individual; 9 .Use of Medications in Suicide Prevention; 10. Suicide Prevention in Healthcare Systems; Part III. Special Topics: Medicolegal Considerations and Specific Populations: 11. Medicolegal Risk Management; 12.The Role of Culture and Societal Factors; 13. Youth and Adolescents; 14. Military and Veterans; 15. Older Adults; 16. LGBT Populations; 17. Suicide Loss Survivors.
