Product Description: This clinical manual offers essential tools and guidance for therapists of any orientation faced with the complex challenges of assessing and treating a suicidal patient. In a large, ready-to-photocopy format, the book provides step-by-step instructions and reproducible forms for evaluating suicidal risk, developing a suicide-specific outpatient treatment plan, and tracking clinical progress and outcomes using documentation that can help to reduce the risk of malpractice liability...read more

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Product Description: An examination of the most thought-provoking works on suicide of the 20th century. It includes historical, literary, sociological, biological, psychiatric and psychological, survivor and helping points of view. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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A world authority on suicide offers moving case studies involving his patients--recounted in their own words--to show how suicide is the result of extreme psychological pain and frustration, and presents practical ideas for treating it. UP.

Product Description: International in scope, this series of non-fiction trade paperbacks offers books that explore the lives, customs and thoughts of peoples and cultures around the world. This text presents letters and diaries from people facing death.

Product Description: Shneidman presents basic ideas of the common characteristics of suicide. He offers a fresh definition of the phenomenon, which includes direct implications for preventive action.

Product Description: This revised edition is designed for mental health practitioners, all of whom must at one time or another deal with a crisis of suicide. It argues that in practically every case, suicide need not occur. unnecessary.

Product Description: This revised edition is designed for mental health practitioners, all of whom must at one time or another deal with a crisis of suicide. It argues that in practically every case, suicide need not occur. unnecessary.

Product Description: Classic and contemporary essays explore the broad range of structural and social contexts of death. Death: Current Perspectives thoroughly covers the issues debated today concerning the psychology, sociology, and ethics of death and dying. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Selections from Murray's writings portray the fundamentals of his theories of personality, mental life, and psychoanalysis

The letters, diaries, reminiscences, confessions, suicide notes, and other personal documents of people who have confronted death and a pioneering thanatologist's comments provide help in facing our own deaths and interacting with dying loved ones

Isolation and rejection are the recurring themes in these personal reflections and discussions about death and suicide.

Articles considering the theoretical, sociological, and legal aspects of suicide, its prevention, suicide in children and the elderly are followed by notes of suicidal and nonsuicidal persons. Bibliogs