Full Description
Treatment of suicidal people takes three forms: prevention - strategies to avert conditions leading to suicide; intervention - treatment and care during the crisis; and postvention - response after the event has occurred. Unlike other current literature, here the focus is on the state of the art of intervention. This type of examination is essential, because suicidal people themselves are in need of such treatments - crisis intervention, psychotherapy, psychopharmacology and hospitalization.
Written by professionals in the field, the Treatment of Suicidal People allows readers to participate in a learning experience. First is a case presentation of an individual - Arthur Inman - and his long road toward suicide, as chronicled in his personal diary. The seond section puts forth guidelines for the evaluation of suicide risk and crisis intervention. A focus on more sustained efforts in psychotherapy is next, a theme which is continued in the fourth part by addressing psychiatric issues that are essential for treatment of highly disturbed and lethal patients.
The following section examines a number of clinical and legal issues that transcend any one population of suicidal people, and any particular treatment approach or context. And lastly, the volume returns to Arthur Inman, with case consultations providing alternative perspectives and recommendations on his treatment. Suicide and related forms of self-injurious behaviour can be circumvented, if the involved professionals are sufficiently trained in assessment and prevention.
Contents
Part 1 The Case; Chapter 1 The Inman Diary: Some Reflections, Edwin S. Shneidman; Part 2 Assessment and Crisis Intervention; Chapter 2 A Clinical Model for Suicide Risk Assessment, Michael J. Kral, Isaac Sakinofsky; Chapter 3 Crisis Centers and Their Role in Treatment: Suicide Prevention Versus Health Promotion, C. James Frankish; Chapter 4 Crisis Intervention with Highly Lethal Suicidal People, Antoon A. Leenaars; Part 3 Therapeutic Approaches; Chapter 5 Psychotherapy for Suicidal Clients, David Lester; Chapter 6 Family Therapy for Suicidal People, Peter McLean Steven Taylor; Chapter 7 Treatment of the Suicidal Adolescent, Alan L. Berman, David A. Jobes; Chapter 8 Psychotheraphy with Older Suicidal Adults, Joseph Richman; Chapter 9 Gender Issues in the Treatment of Suicidal Individuals, Silvia Sara Canetto; Chapter 10 Suicide and Terminal Illness, Peter M. Marzuk; Part 4 Psychiatric Issues; Chapter 11 Psychopharmacotherapy of Suicide, Andrew Edmund Slaby; Chapter 12 Hospitalization of the Suicidal Patient, Mark J. Goldblatt; Chapter 13 Managing Suicidal Inpatients, Lloyd I. Sederer; Part 5 Clinical and Legal Issues; Chapter 14 Essential Clinical and Legal Issues When Working with the Suicidal Patient, Bruce Bongar, Sheila A. Greaney; Chapter 15 Calculated Risk-Taking in the Treatment of Suicidal Patients: Ethical and Legal Problems, John T. Maltsberger; Chapter 16 The Ten Most Common Errors of Suicide Interventionists, Robert A. Neimeyer, Angela M. Pfeiffer; Part 6 Applications to the Case; Chapter 17 The Inman Diary: Some Reflections on Treatment, Antoon A. Leenaars, John T. Maltsberger;
