Heather Fiske

Hope in Action

Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Few tasks are more important-and daunting-than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope. Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide is a unique resource providing fresh approaches to treating individuals and families where suicide is an issue. This comprehensive book provides a thorough grounding in using a solution-focused therapy approach to elicit and reinforce hope and reasons for living. Strategies are demonstrated with stories, case vignettes, and transcripts. Special applications include some of the most challenging high-risk clients that therapists treat, including people who make repeated attempts. This powerful resource offers a set of practice principles based on the existing empirical evidence in the context of clinical utility and client expertise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780789033949
• ISBN-10: 0789033941
• Artikelnr.: 23452420

Autorenporträt

Heather Fiske

Inhaltsangabe

Korman, Foreword. Preface: Stories of Hope and Healing. Acknowledgments.
Introduction: How to Use This Book. Part I: Foundations. What Works?
Building on What We Know to Develop Practice Principles. Putting Principles
into Practice: Asking Useful Questions. Part II: Applications. Three
Conversations About Dying and Living. Solution-Focused Approaches to
Crisis. Befriending the Black Dog: Solutions for Depression. Chronic
Attempts at Solution: Working with People Who Have Made Repeated Suicide
Attempts. Even the Children: Preventing Suicide Among Young People. Hope
and Energy: Preventing Adolescent Suicide. Teamwork with Natural Systems I:
Collaborating with Clients' Parents and Peers. Teamwork with Natural
Systems II: Family and Couple Therapy. Teamwork with Unnatural Systems:
Collaborating with Our Colleagues. Teamwork in Communities. Survivor
Wisdom: News of a Difference. Walking the Talk: The Hopeful Therapist.
Conclusion: Take This Story. Appendix A: Solution Focused Brief Therapy:
The Basics. Appendix B: Notes on the Evidence Base: Toward Communities of
Curiosity. Appendix C: Warning Signs of Imminent Danger for Suicide.
Appendix D: Reflective Questions. References. Index.