Description
Assessing and Treating Suicidal Thinking and Behaviors in Children and Adolescents is a guide to working with children and young people who present with either obvious or hidden suicidal thoughts, preoccupations, or plans.
Chapters explore a range of treatment approaches and focus on how to support parents, caregivers, families, and schools. Expressive therapies are highlighted, but the chapters also cover evidence-based models such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), and prescriptive play therapy.
Expressive therapists, school-based counselors, and other clinicians who work with at-risk children and adolescents from diverse communities and backgrounds will come away from this book with the tools they need to integrate the individual child’s capabilities, sources of distress, and internal and external resources in order to build a developmentally sensitive treatment plan.
Table of Contents
Part One: Understanding Youth Suicide 1. Introduction 2. Law and Ethics, Research, Media, and Looking Forward Toward Zero Suicide 3. Integrating Psychiatry into Treatment of Suicidal Youth: Information for Clinicians 4. Countertransference in the Treatment of Youth Suicide and Interventions for Providing Inner and External Support Part Two: Assessment, Theory, and Treatment of Youth Suicide 5. Assessment of Suicide in Youth 6. Play Therapy Theories: Applications to Suicide in Youth 7. Treatment of Suicidal Thinking and Behaviors in Children and Adolescents Using Play Therapy 8. Impacts of Diversity in Suicide Assessment, Treatment and Prevention for Children and Adolescents 9. The Role of Schools in Suicide: Response, Resourcing and Prevention for Children 10. Technology's Emerging Role from Assessment to Prevention in Children and Adolescents
