Suicide prevention: a holistic approach

✍ Scribed by R. F. W. Diekstra, International Association for Suicide Prevention

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 254
• 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

Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
1. Reflections on the State of Suicidology......Page 12
2. Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts: The Role of Comorbidity with Depression, Anxiety Disorders, and Substance-use Disorder......Page 26
3. Depression, Hopelessness and Suicide Intent in Attempted Suicide: A Hospital-based Study of 201 Patients......Page 38
4. Suicide Attempters who Attribute their Problems to Interpersonal Difficulties......Page 48
5. Suicide among Psychiatric Hospital Inpatients......Page 56
6. Twin Research Perspective on Suicide and Suicidal Attempts......Page 64
7. The WHO/EURO Multicentre Study on Parasuicide: State of the Art and Future Directions......Page 74
8. Suicide and Suicide Attempt Rates in Europe, 1989–1993: Rates, Changes and Epidemiological Results of the WHO/EURO Multicentre Study on Parasuicide......Page 78
9. Relevance of Diagnostic Setting in Predicting the Outcome of Suicide Attempters......Page 92
10. Gender Differences in Adolescent Suicide......Page 104
11. The Suicidal Process in Young Suicides......Page 116
12. Childhood Conceptions of Death and Suicide: Empirical Investigations and Implications for Suicide Prevention......Page 122
13. What do we Know about Media Effects on Imitation of Suicidal Behaviour: State of the Art......Page 132
14. The Aftermath of Kurt Cobain’s Suicide......Page 150
15. Media Reports on Suicide in Hungary, Austria, Germany and Lithuania in 1981 and 1991. Reflection, Mediation and Changes of Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Suicide in the Mass Media......Page 156
16. Shame and Guilt in Suicide and Survivors......Page 168
17. Shame – The Unbearable Legacy of Suicide......Page 174
18. The Erwin Ringel Memorial Lecture: On Suicide and Mental Illness: How Right was Ringel?......Page 178
19. A Critical Evaluation of Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Depression and in Suicide Prevention......Page 184
20. Applications of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in Suicide Prevention......Page 196
21. Pharmacological Treatment of Suicidal Behavior......Page 210
22. Risk Factors for Non-Compliance with Outpatient Aftercare: Implications for the Management of Attempted Suicide Patients......Page 222
23. Implementation of the Suicide Prevention Strategy in Finland: First Follow-up......Page 230
24. Venlång: The Swedish National Programme for Suicide Prevention......Page 236
25. England’s Policy on Severe Mental Illness......Page 246