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Overview"This practical handbook presents an evidence model for understanding and treating suicidal behavior in all its forms, providing easy-to-use assessment tools for clinical practice-including ""interactive"" self-assessments to highlight important ethical points and checklists against which readers can assess how they are doing-clinical vignettes and narratives to illustrate key assessment and intervention principles, and an intervention model for working with suicide survivors. Each chapter is designed for use in individual instruction or as a training module." Full Product DetailsAuthor: John A. Chiles , Kirk D. Strosahl, PhDPublisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing Imprint: American Psychiatric Association Publishing Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9781585621408ISBN 10: 1585621404 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 30 September 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Replaced By: 9781615371372 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsContributorPrefaceChapter 1. Introduction: The dimensions of suicidal behaviorChapter 2. The clinician's emotions, values, legal exposure, and ethics: global issues in the treatment of suicidal patientsChapter 3. A basic model of suicidal behaviorChapter 4. Assessment of suicidal behavior and predisposing factors: blending your assessment with treatmentChapter 5. Outpatient interventions with suicidal patientsChapter 6. The repetitiously suicidal patient: evaluation, psychotherapy, and basic case managementChapter 7. Managing suicidal emergencies: more on crisis and case managementChapter 8. Hospitals and suicidal behavior: a complex relationshipChapter 9. Working with special populations: substance-abusing, psychotic, young, and elderly patientsChapter 10. Suicidal patients in general health careChapter 11. Understanding and providing care to survivors of suicideAppendix A: Philosophies about suicideAppendix B: Consequences of suicidal behavior questionnaireAppendix C: Reasons for living inventoryAppendix D: Suicidal thinking and behaviors questionnaireAppendix E: Malpractice management assessmentIndexReviews<p> A psychiatrist and psychologist have teamed up to outline a workable approach for addressing suicidal patients. The book encourages professionals of all disciplines to examine their own attitudes about suicide and their impact on their work. The authors seek to offer accessible and wise advice on one of the most difficult challenges clinicians will experience. -- Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow This comprehensive text covers everything from the basic causes and diagnosis of suicidality, to treatment strategies and suggestions for comprehensive set-up of community and hospital based services for the suicidal patient and their family.... It is highly recommended as an excellent, readable resource for clinicians and administrators in the mental health and medical fields. It deserves a place on the bookshelves of any educational or professional library serving students or practitioners in the fields of medicine, psychiatry, social work, psychology, or counseling. - E-Streams Author InformationJohn A. Chiles, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Sound Psychiatry Consulting Group, in Port Townsend, Washington. Kirk Strosahl, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist at Mountainview Consulting Group Inc., in Moxee, Washington. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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