Suicide Prevention

✍ Scribed by Tatiana Falcone, Jane Timmons-Mitchell

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 311
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is a guide for the hospital workforce related to suicide prevention. Written by experts in the field, this text is the only one that also includes the revised DSM-5 guidelines. It is also the first to cover both prevention in one concise guide, offering a well-rounded approach to long- and short-term prevention.
The book begins by establishing the neurobiology of suicide before discussing the populations at risk for suicide and the various environments where they may present. The book addresses the epidemiology, including groups at heightened risk; etiology, including several types of risk factors; prevention, including large-scale community-based activities; and postvention, including the few evidence-based approaches that are currently available. Unlike any other text on the market, this book does not simply focus on one particular demographic; rather, the book covers a wide range of populations and concerns, including suicide in youths, racial minorities, patients suffering from serious mental and physical illnesses, psychopharmacological treatment in special populations, and a wide array of challenging scenarios that are often not addressed in the very few up-to-date resources available.
Suicide Prevention is an outstanding resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, hospitalists, primary care doctors, nurses, social workers, and all medical professionals who may interface with suicidal patients.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Neurobiology of Suicide (Tatiana Falcone, Migle Staniskyte, Fernando Espi Forcen, Jaime Vengoechea)....Pages 3-21
Mood Disorders and Suicide (Mariela Herrera)....Pages 23-52
Psychosis and Suicide (Tatiana Falcone, Migle Staniskyte, Jane Timmons-Mitchell)....Pages 53-69
Front Matter ....Pages 71-71
Suicide in Children (Elizabeth C. Lanzillo, Lisa M. Horowitz, Maryland Pao)....Pages 73-107
Substance Abuse and Suicide (Youssef Mahfoud, Michael Ignatowski)....Pages 109-118
Suicide in Children and Adults with Epilepsy: A Complex Relationship (Jana E. Jones, Jessica M. Bordenave)....Pages 119-142
Suicide in Chronic Pain Patients: Risk Factors and Clinical Considerations (Jennifer K. Lehmann, Xavier F. Jimenez)....Pages 143-151
Front Matter ....Pages 153-153
Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) Model and Suicide (Alexander D. Smith, Meghan D. M. Fondow, Elizabeth A. Zeidler Schreiter)....Pages 155-171
Suicide Risk Assessment Tools and Management in Emergency Department (Karolina Mlynek, Christopher Sola, Naveed Khokhar)....Pages 173-189
The Darkness at the End of Life: Suicide in Palliative Care Settings (Fernando Espí Forcén, Juan R. Jaramillo)....Pages 191-202
Front Matter ....Pages 203-203
Suicide Prevention: A Primer for Healthcare Professionals (Michael F. Hogan)....Pages 205-216
Preventing Suicide in Hospital-Based Care (Clare C. Mitchell, Jeanne M. Lackamp)....Pages 217-228
Gatekeeper Training to Prevent Suicide in the Emergency Department and in Primary Care (Glenn Albright, Jane Timmons-Mitchell, Jeremiah McMillan)....Pages 229-250
Medical Student Suicide: An Assessment of Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies (Carol Swetlik, Kathleen N. Franco)....Pages 251-263
Teaching Psychiatry Residents About Suicide Prevention and Postvention (Farah Munir, Sarah Nagle-Yang, Cathleen Cerny)....Pages 265-283
Understanding Risk Factors and Warning Signs for Suicide: A Primer for Preventing Suicide in Physicians (Ruby C. Castilla-Puentes)....Pages 285-301
Back Matter ....Pages 303-311

✦ Subjects

Medicine & Public Health; Psychiatry; General Practice / Family Medicine; Public Health; Emergency Medicine; Nursing