New Approaches to Preventing Suicide: A Manual For Practitioners

✍ Scribed by David Duffy, David Duffy, Tony Ryan

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 384
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written by front line professionals in the fields of nursing, mental health, prison services and the law, this text is an essential companion to the government's new suicide prevention strategy. The contributors offer a wealth of practical guidance on issues such as risk assessment and management in a range of settings, policy and the legal framework around suicide. Exploring the links between self-harm and suicide, the authors present international approaches to training in suicide prevention for professionals and preventative initiatives targeting wider communities. They debate the legality and morality of assisted self-harm and analyse the rate and causes of suicide among specific groups, including Black and minority ethnic groups, people in custody and people with mental illnesses. This manual provides health, social care and criminal justice professionals with all the most up-to-date information needed to make a positive contribution to suicide prevention in institutional and community settings.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
New Approaches to Preventing Suicide: A Manual for Practitioners......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Foreword......Page 13
1. Introduction......Page 15
2. Assessing Suicide Risk......Page 22
3. Primary Care......Page 41
4. A&E and Mental Health Liaison......Page 56
5. Mental Health In-patient Settings......Page 71
6. Community Mental Health Services......Page 85
7. Young Men......Page 101
8. Prisons......Page 116
9. Black and Minority Ethnic Groups......Page 132
10. Assisting Self-harm: Some Legal Considerations......Page 150
11. ‘Shouting at the Spaceman’ – A Conversation about Self-harm......Page 169
12. Adolescents and Developmental Group Psychotherapy......Page 180
13. The Role of the National Confidential Inquiry in Relation to Suicide Prevention......Page 196
14. Using Audit......Page 215
15. Carrying Out Internal Reviews of Serious Incidents......Page 229
16. Developing Training Packages......Page 246
17. International Perspectives in Suicide Prevention, Education and Training......Page 260
18. Supporting Staff and Patients after a Suicide......Page 276
19. Samaritans: Working with Everyone, Everywhere......Page 293
20. PAPYRUS: An Example of Voluntary Sector Work......Page 307
21. Community Whole-System Approaches......Page 322
22. Useful Resources......Page 345
The Contributors......Page 367
Subject
Index......Page 375
Author
Index......Page 383