Tony White

Working with Suicidal Individuals: A Guide to Providing Understanding, Assessment and Support

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Produktbeschreibung

Working with Suicidal Individuals provides a comprehensive guide to understanding suicide, the assessment of risk, and the treatment and management of suicidal individuals. It covers the theory behind suicidal behaviour, using Transactional Analysis to explore the personality types of suicidal individuals and to understand their motivations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781849051156
• ISBN-10: 1849051151
• Artikelnr.: 31193074

Autorenporträt

Tony White has been a registered psychologist in private practice for the past 29 years, and is a teacher and supervisor of Transactional Analysis psychotherapists. He has worked with suicidal individuals for many years, including spending three years working in a prison identifying and managing suicidal and self-harming inmates.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Understanding Suicide. 1. Introduction. 2. What is Suicide? 3.
Transactional Analysis. 4. The Suicide Decision. 5. Modeling Suicidal
Behavior. 6. Reactions to High Stress. 7. Suicide and Self-Harm. Part 2.
Assessing Suicide Risk. 8. Quantitative Measures of Assessing Suicide Risk.
9. Qualitative Measures of Assessing Suicide Risk. Part 3. Supporting the
Suicidal Individual. 10. The Suicide Secret and the Deliberate Suicide
Risk. 11. Pseudo-Suicide, Suicide and Teenage Suicide. 12. Suicidal
Ambivalence. 13. Suicidal Timelines. 14. The No-Suicide Contract. 15.
Redecision Therapy. Epilogue. Appendix A: Stopper Analysis. References.
Further Reading. Index.