Suicide in Adults Books

New and Published Books

1. Cognitive Behavioural Prevention of Suicide in Psychosis

   A treatment manual

   By Nicholas Tarrier, Patricia Gooding, Daniel Pratt, James Kelly, Yvonne Awenat, Janet Maxwell

   This practical and informative text lays out the product of a number of years of clinical research into suicide behaviour and its prevention. While the focus is on non-affective psychosis and the schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, the mechanisms underlying suicide behaviour in this group may well...

   Published February 17th 2013 by Routledge
2. Suicide and Justice

   A Chinese Perspective

   By Fei Wu

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Sociological and psychiatric studies on suicide based on Western ideas about human nature see suicide as social or individual disorder. Suicide in China, however, should be understood differently. By analyzing 30 cases, Wu Fei studies the dynamics of suicide in terms of family politics and local...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Loneliness Updated

   Recent research on loneliness and how it affects our lives

   Edited by Ami Rokach

   "To be alone is to be different. To be different is to be alone, and to be in the interior of this fatal circle is to be lonely. To be lonely is to have failed" (Susan Schultz, 1976) Loneliness carries a significant social stigma, as lack of friendship and social ties is socially undesirable, and...

   Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. Grief After Suicide

   Understanding the Consequences and Caring for the Survivors

   Edited by John R. Jordan, John L. McIntosh

   Series: Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement

   here are over 38,000 suicide deaths each year in the United States alone, and the numbers in other countries suggest that suicide is a major public health problem around the world. A suicide leaves behind more victims than just the individual, as family, friends, co-workers, and the community...

   Published October 12th 2010 by Routledge
5. Hope in Action

   Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide

   By Heather Fiske

   Respectful and effective solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) for suicidal clients Few tasks are more important—and daunting—than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope. Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide is a unique...

   Published May 27th 2008 by Routledge
6. Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide

   Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention

   Edited by Stephen Briggs, Alessandra Lemma, William Crouch

   Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis! Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents original studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, therapists and academics focusing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and self-harm, and how this can...

   Published April 6th 2008 by Routledge
7. Suicide Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups

   Theory, Research, and Practice

   Edited by Frederick T.L. Leong, Mark M. Leach

   Series: Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement

   Suicide is increasingly understood and predicted as an intersection of biological, psychological, cognitive, and sociocultural factors. We have some basic knowledge of these factors and how they interact, but presently we know very little about how culture can play a role as a variable that...

   Published December 12th 2007 by Routledge
8. Suicide

   Strategies and Interventions for Reduction and Prevention

   Edited by Stephen Palmer

   All practitioners working in the caring and helping professions face many challenges and questions when dealing with suicidal clients: Is this client being serious? Can I do more? What should I do? Should I refer on? Should I break confidentiality? Have I assessed this client correctly? Both...

   Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge
9. Culture and Self-Harm

   Attempted Suicide in South Asians in London

   By Dinesh Bhugra

   Series: Maudsley Series

   Attempted suicide is a matter of serious public health concern. Culture and Self-Harm considers the factors that may contribute to this increased rate of self-harm and suicide among south Asians in London, which cannot be blamed on migration alone. Cultural pressures that dictate the way stress is...

   Published September 22nd 2004 by Psychology Press
10. Katie's Diary

    Unlocking the Mystery of a Suicide

    Edited by David Lester

    Series: Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement

    Katie's Diary is a unique analysis of the diary left behind by a young woman who has committed suicide. As compared to suicide notes, which are typically brief, Katie's diary consists of five separate books, an opportunity to look into the mind of a suicide from a source of data that is...

    Published October 26th 2003 by Routledge