Suicide Prevention: A Holistic Approach

✍ Scribed by Rene F. W. Diekstra (auth.), D. De Leo, A. Schmidtke, R. F. W. Diekstra (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 238
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Suicide Prevention: A Holistic Approach contains the selected and edited papers that were presented during the congress Suicide, Disease, Disadvantage, A Holistic Approach, organized by the International Association for Suicide Prevention, which was held in June 1995, in Venice.
Suicide prevention is still sadly neglected by governments and public health authorities, despite the fact that in several Western countries suicide has become the primary cause of death among younger age groups. The selected papers express the need for a holistic viewpoint in suicide management. The subjects range from parasuicide to the role of the media, from the special type of psychotherapeutic approach required to the most recent guidelines in pharmacological treatment, from a homage to the memory of Erwin Ringel to the presentation of specific national prevention schemes.
The book will be of interest to public health workers, doctors, psychologists and social workers, as well as voluntary staff and their organizations, and to all those who make suicide prevention one of their primary interests.

✦ Table of Contents

Reflections on the State of Suicidology....Pages 1-13
Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts....Pages 15-26
Depression, Hopelessness and Suicide Intent in Attempted Suicide....Pages 27-36
Suicide Attempters who Attribute their Problems to Interpersonal Difficulties....Pages 37-44
Suicide among Psychiatric Hospital Inpatients....Pages 45-51
Twin Research Perspective on Suicide and Suicidal Attempts....Pages 53-61
The WHO/EURO Multicentre Study on Parasuicide....Pages 63-66
Suicide and Suicide Attempt Rates in Europe, 1989–1993....Pages 67-80
Relevance of Diagnostic Setting in Predicting the Outcome of Suicide Attempters....Pages 81-91
Gender Differences in Adolescent Suicide....Pages 93-103
The Suicidal Process in Young Suicides....Pages 105-110
Childhood Conceptions of Death and Suicide....Pages 111-119
What do we Know about Media Effects on Imitation of Suicidal Behaviour....Pages 121-137
The Aftermath of Kurt Cobain’ Suicide....Pages 139-143
Media Reports on Suicide in Hungary, Austria, Germany and Lithuania in 1981 and 1991....Pages 145-156
Shame and Guilt in Suicide and Survivors....Pages 157-161
Shame — The Unbearable Legacy of Suicide....Pages 163-166
The Erwin Ringel Memorial Lecture....Pages 167-172
A Critical Evaluation of Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Depression and in Suicide Prevention....Pages 173-183
Applications of Solution-focused Brief Therapy in Suicide Prevention....Pages 185-197
Pharmacological Treatment of Suicidal Behavior....Pages 199-209
Risk Factors for Non-compliance with Outpatient Aftercare....Pages 211-218
Implementation of the Suicide Prevention Strategy in Finland....Pages 219-223
Venlång: The Swedish National Programme for Suicide Prevention....Pages 225-234
England’s Policy on Severe Mental Illness....Pages 235-243

✦ Subjects

Neurosciences; Public Health/Gesundheitswesen; Psychiatry