Product Description: Suicide Prevention: A Holistic Approach contains the selected and edited papers that were presented during the congress Suicide, Disease, Disadvantage, A Holistic Approach, organized by the International Association for Suicide Prevention, which was held in June 1995, in Venice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Suicide Prevention: A Holistic Approach contains the selected and edited papers that were presented during the congress Suicide, Disease, Disadvantage, A Holistic Approach, organized by the International Association for Suicide Prevention, which was held in June 1995, in Venice...read more

Product Description: Recent estimates by The World Health Organisation and The World Bank indicate that throughout the world each and every year more than 800,000 persons die as a consequence of suicide. This means that the death toll of suicide equals and in many countries even exceeds that of road traffic accidents...read more

Product Description: This is an optimistic book. The attempt here is to instill a more positive outlook in mental health professionals who work extensively with elderly subjects. Unfortunately, the numerous loss events inevitably accumulating in the latter part of life provide a partial explanation of the greater prevalence of depression in this age group...read more