Helping the Suicidal Person: Tips and Techniques for Professionals

✍ Scribed by Stacey Freedenthal

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Helping the Suicidal Person provides a highly practical toolbox for mental health professionals. The book first covers the need for professionals to examine their own personal experiences and fears around suicide, moves into essential areas of risk assessment, safety planning, and treatment planning, and then provides a rich assortment of tips for reducing the person’s suicidal danger and rebuilding the wish to live. The techniques described in the book can be interspersed into any type of therapy, no matter what the professional’s theoretical orientation is and no matter whether it’s the client’s first, tenth, or one-hundredth session. Clinicians don’t need to read this book in any particular order, or even read all of it. Open the book to any page, and find a useful tip or technique that can be applied immediately.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
About the Author
Introduction
1 Understanding Suicide and You
2 Overcoming the Taboo
3 Joining with the Suicidal Person
4 Assessing Danger
5 Assessing Protective and Cultural Factors
6 Putting It All Together: Estimating Risk
7 Attending to Immediate Safety
8 Planning for Treatment
9 Alleviating Psychological Pain
10 Exploring Motivations and Misgivings
11 Inspiring Hope
12 Drawing from Cognitive Behavior Strategies
13 Improving Quality of Life
14 Moving Forward After a Suicide Attempt
15 Building Resilience
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Index