Keith Hawton (ed.)

Prevention and Treatment of Suicidal Behaviour

From Science to Practice
Herausgegeben von Hawton, Keith

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Worldwide, at least 1 million people die by suicide each year and many millions more attempt suicide. However, suicide has been increasingly recognised as a preventable problem in many cases. Because of this, and the rising rates of suicide in young people, many countries have established national suicide prevention strategies. These include the United Kingdom, the USA, Scandinavian countries, other countries in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. There is also increasing emphasis on the treatment of suicidal people and those who have made suicide attempts. In order to be effective it is imperative that strategies for treatment and prevention are based on sound scientific evidence. In this book leading figures from psychiatry, psychology, epidemiology, public health, and social medicine bring together the research evidence concerning the key elements in suicide prevention and treatment of suicidal behaviour and translate it into implications for practical action. This includes social and public health policy as well as clinical practice. The book draws together the evidence relevant to treatment and prevention, and uses this in order to highlight the most effective approaches. The range of initiatives covered is wide, reflecting the complex nature of suicide and hence the need for a range of approaches. This book will be an essential source for anyone concerned with the design and implementation of effective suicide prevention strategies, including clinicians working with individual patients, strategic policy makers, and researchers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780198529767
• ISBN-10: 0198529767
• Artikelnr.: 14257262

Autorenporträt

Professor Keith Hawton DSc is the recipient of: 1995 Stengel Reseach Award by the International Association for Suicide Prevention 2001 Dublin Research Award by the American Association for Suicidology 2002 Research Award of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Keith Hawton: Introduction and overview
* 2: Ping Qin, Esben Agerbo and Preben Bo Mortensen: Factors
contributing to suicide: the epidemiological evidence from
large-scale registers
* 3: David Gunnell: Time trends and geographic differences in suicide:
implications for prevention
* 4: Stephen Platt, Stephen Pavis, Michael Sharpe and Fiona O'May:
Contextual effects in suicidal behaviour: evidence, exploration and
implications
* 5: J Mark G Williams, Catherine Crane, Thorsten Barnhofer and
Danielle Duggan: Psychology and suicidal behaviour: elaborating the
entrapment model
* 6: Kees van Heeringen: Psychobiological approaches to the
predisposition to suicidal behaviour: implications for treatment and
prevention
* 7: Andrej Marusic and Peter McGuffin: Interplay of genes and
environment as contributory factors to suicidal behaviour
* 8: Lars Mehlum: Traumatic stress and suicidal behaviour: an important
target for treatment and prevention
* 9: Louis Appleby, Nicola Swinson and Navneet Kapur: Making mental
health services safer
* 10: Robert D Goldney: Risk factors for suicidal behaviour:
translating knowledge into practice
* 11: Kay Jamison and Keith Hawton: The burden of suicide and clinical
suggestions for prevention
* 12: Keith Hawton: Psychosocial treatments following attempted
suicide: evidence to inform clinical practice
* 13: Yeates Conwell and Paul Duberstein: Suicide in older people:
determinants of risk and opportunities for prevention
* 14: Herman M van Praag: The resistance of suicide: why have
antidepressants not reduced suicide rates?
* 15: Ingeborg Rossow: Substance use and suicidal behaviour:
associations and implications for prevention
* 16: Keith Hawton: Restriction of access to methods of suicide as a
means of suicide prevention
* 17: Keith Hawton and Kathryn Williams: Media influences on suicidal
behaviour: evidence and prevention
* 18: Jo Paton and Rachel Jenkins: Suicide and suicide attempts in
prisons
* 19: Lakshmi Vijayakumar and Simon Armson: Volunteer perspectives on
suicide prevention
* 20: Onja Grad: Suicide survivorship: an unknown journey from loss to
gain - from individual to global perspectives

Rezensionen

...an accessible book that will appeal to those working in the field and those with a more casual interest...it is a useful text with important ethical, societal and psychiatric messages. British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 190