Meaghan Stacy (Connecticut Yale University), Jay Schulkin (University of Washington)

Understanding Suicide in the United States

A Social, Biological, and Psychological Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By integrating sociological, psychological, and biological perspectives on the etiology of suicide, this book provides a concise overview of what is known about its assessment, prevention, and treatment. Its broad perspective makes it relevant to general readers and researchers in biology, psychology, sociology, psychiatry, politics and policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9781009386906
• ISBN-10: 1009386905
• Artikelnr.: 68536366

Autorenporträt

Meaghan Stacy is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. She has over fifteen years of experience in health care system change and improvement, and she has authored more than forty articles and 100 presentations in national and international settings. She is the Editor of Recovering the US Mental Healthcare System: The Past, Present, and Future of Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Brief View on the Social History of Suicide
2. Pain, Suffering, and Buffering
3. Allostasis: The Biology and Neuroscience of Suicide
4. Suicide Demographics in the United States
5. Prevention, Identification, and Intervention
6. Building Resilient Individuals, Communities, and Societies to Prevent Suicide
7. Hope
References
Index.