Overview

This manual provides an empirically supported approach to treating suicidality that is specifically tailored to today's managed care environment. Structured yet flexible, the model is fully compatible with current best practice standards. The authors establish the empirical and theoretical foundations for time-limited treatment and describe the specific tasks involved in assessment and intervention. The book then details effective ways to conduct a rapid case conceptualization and outpatient risk assessment, determine and implement individualized treatment targets, and monitor treatment outcomes. Outlined are clear cut intervention techniques that focus on symptom management, restructuring the patient's suicidal belief system, and building such key skills as interpersonal assertiveness, distress tolerance, and problem solving. Other topics covered include the role of the therapeutic relationship, applications to group work and longer-term therapy, the use of medications, patient selection, and termination of treatment. Illustrated with helpful clincial examples, the book also features dozens of tables, figures, and sample handouts and forms.

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Author:   M. David Rudd (University of Memphis, United States) ,  Thomas E. Joiner ,  M. Hasan Rajab (Texas A&M University, United States)
Publisher:   Guilford Publications
Imprint:   Guilford Publications
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.448kg
ISBN:  

9781593851002

ISBN 10:   1593851006
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   02 September 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Establishing a Foundation for Treatment 1. What Do We Really Know about Treating Suicidality?: A Critical Review of the Literature 2. A Cognitive-Behavioral Model of Suicidality 3. An Overview of the Treatment Process II. Assessment and Treatment 4. Treatment Course and Session-by-Session Guidelines 5. The Evaluation Process and the Initial Interviews 6. Assessing Suicide Risk 7. Crisis Intervention and Initial Symptom Management 8. Reducing and Eliminating Suicide-Related Behaviors 9. Cognitive Restructuring: Changing the Suicidal Belief System and Building a Philosophy for Living 10. Skill Building: Developing Adaptive Modes and Ensuring Lasting Change

Reviews

Offer[s] clinicians for the first time a flexible and unique therapeutic program that is direct, time-limited, and buttressed by empirical support. Thus, clinicians facing the urgency of suicidal behavior can decide on the content and timing of interventions designed to eliminate suicidal behavior, and assess in an ongoing way the effectiveness of their efforts. Even if not often confronted with suicidal behavior, clinicians who become familiar with the procedures outlined in this manual will gain confidence in their ability to deal with suicidal crises. --From the Series Editor Note by David H. Barlow <br> This important book presents a short-term cognitive-behavioral treatment model that will be perused with interest by all contemporary suicidologists. The authors are exemplary scientist-practitioners within the field of psychology. They have produced a noteworthy, clinically useful contribution. --Edwin S. Shneidman, PhD., Professor of Thanatology Emeritus, University of Calif

.,. provides practitioners with a working manual for dealing with the most serious, complex, and potentially lethal clinical problem found in any treatment and psychiatric rehabilitation setting....the book should be on the shelf of all practitioners who interface and treat suicidal individuals. -- Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal <br> In many ways, this book is a lifeline for both the patient and the therapist. It provides a rich web of techniques, advice, suggestions, and instructions to which the therapist and patient can hold onto in times of a life-and-death crisis without the therapist being overburdened by the sense of responsibility or the patient with uncontrollable anxiety....a very impressive achievement. -- Death Studies <br> What distinguishes this volume from many others is that an effort has been made by the authors to provide clinicians with reasonable, practical measures to use in suicidal patients that both have an empirical basis and are time-limited....The work is a concise, clearly explained, useful, clinical tool that tackles the challenge of working with suicidal behavior from initial intake and risk assessment through risk management and countertransference to skill training and relapse prevention. I believe that both novice therapists and experts would benefit from the authors' approach as well as anyone who teaches beginning clinicians. -- Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy <br>.,. this volume can be particularly recommended for clinicians with basic knowledge of cognitive-behavioral principles. It will quite likely enhance their knowledge and effectiveness in their treatment of a challenging clinical population. -- The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry <br> Directed toward practitioners with at least basic knowledge, skills, and experience, it provides them with a well-indexed, cookbook-type set of guidelines and suggestions, replete with diagrams, charts, citations, and examples....the book fulfills its promise to provide direction for trained health professionals in coping with the troublesome issues of suicide threats and suicidants. It should prove extremely helpful in supplying resources, support, and alternatives for those charged with dealing with these complex problems. -- Readings <br> This book provides important information on understanding and intervening with patients who are suicidal. The urgency faced by clinicians when attempting to manage patients' suicidal behavior is often daunting, and suicidal behavior is on the increase in our society. In Treating Suidical Behavior: An Effective, Time-Limited Approach, M. David Rudd, Thomas Joiner, and M. Hasan Rajab share a concrete therapeutic approach for directly and specifically employing empirically validated strategies to help prevent patients' suicidal behaviors. By incorporating the clinical information contained in this book, clinicians will be better able to decide when and how to effectively intervene in the suicidal syndrome....this book is comprehensive, well-organized, and articulate. The information provided is highly specific to understanding, assessing, and treating suicidal behavior. Abundant graphics break the routine flow of text and add significantly to the available knowledge in this area. Timely and well-chosen references are listed throughout the book....This will certainly become a well-cited addition to the field. -- Journal of Nervous and MentalDisease <br> The text has numerous strengths including its theoretically grounded approach towards assessing suicide risk, clear session-by-session outlines of the implementation of both short- and long-term treatment strategies, and rich descriptions of empirical support for the techniques proposed....An exceptional guide to help clinicians effectively and efficiently treat suicidality, and the authors animate the test by providing a multitude of client worksheets, session transcripts, and flow charts. This book will definitely be on my list of recommendations for students and colleagues who want either to build or to strengthen their foundation in conduction cognitive therapy. -- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Book Reviews

Author Information

M. David Rudd, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training at Baylor University. He also maintains a part-time private practice. Dr. Rudd received his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin and completed postdoctoral training at the Beck Institute in Philadelphia. He is the author of over 60 articles and book chapters. Thomas E. Joiner, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychology Clinic at Florida State University. He completed his doctoral training at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Joiner has authored over 100 articles and book chapters in the areas of depression, eating disorders, and suicidality. M. Hasan Rajab, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Texas A&M Health Science Center. Dr. Rajab completed his doctoral training in biostatistics at Texas A&M University. He is the author of several articles addressing a range of issues in methodology and biostatistics.

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