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Grief After Suicide
Understanding the Consequences and Caring for the Survivors
- Edited by John R. Jordan, and John L. McIntosh.
Published October 2010
There are over 30,000 suicide deaths each year in the United States alone, and the numbers in other countries suggest that suicide as a cause of death will be around for the foreseeable future. A suicide leaves behind more victims than just the individual, as family, friends,…
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Suicide and Justice
A Chinese Perspective
- By Fei Wu.
Published September 2009
Sociological and psychiatric studies on suicide based on Western ideas about human nature see suicide as social or individual disorder. Suicide in China, however, should be understood differently.
By analyzing 30 cases, Wu Fei studies the dynamics of suicide in terms of family politics and…
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Hope in Action
Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide
- By Heather Fiske.
Published May 2008
Respectful and effective solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) for suicidal clients Few tasks are more important—and daunting—than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope. Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide is a unique…
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Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention
- Edited by Stephen Briggs, Alessandra Lemma and William Crouch.
Published April 2008
Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents original studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, therapists and academics focusing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and self-harm, and how this can be applied to clinical work and policy.
This powerful critique of current…
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Suicide Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups
Theory, Research, and Practice
- Edited by Frederick T.L. Leong, and Mark M. Leach.
Published December 2007
Suicide is increasingly understood and predicted as an intersection of biological, psychological, cognitive, and sociocultural factors. We have some basic knowledge of these factors and how they interact, but presently we know very little about how culture can play a role as a variable that…
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Suicide
Strategies and Interventions for Reduction and Prevention
- Edited by Stephen Palmer.
Published October 2007
All practitioners working in the caring and helping professions face many challenges and questions when dealing with suicidal clients: Is this client being serious? Can I do more? What should I do? Should I refer on? Should I break confidentiality? Have I assessed this client correctly? Both…
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Culture and Self-Harm
Attempted Suicide in South Asians in London
- By Dinesh Bhugra.
Published September 2004
Attempted suicide is a matter of serious public health concern. Culture and Self-Harm considers the factors that may contribute to this increased rate of self-harm and suicide among south Asians in London, which cannot be blamed on migration alone. Cultural pressures that dictate the way stress is…
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Katie's Diary
Unlocking the Mystery of a Suicide
- Edited by David Lester.
Published October 2003
Katie's Diary is a unique analysis of the diary left behind by a young woman who has committed suicide. As compared to suicide notes, which are typically brief, Katie's diary consists of five separate books, an opportunity to look into the mind of a suicide from a source of data that is…
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Suicide
A Study in Sociology
- By Emile Durkheim, and Emile Durkheim.
Published February 2002
There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we do have a connection to the larger picture is largely thanks to the pioneering thinker Émile Durkheim. He recognized that, if anything can explain how we as individuals relate to…
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Suicide
A Study in Sociology
- By Emile Durkheim.
Published February 2002
There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we do have a connection to the larger picture is largely thanks to the pioneering thinker Émile Durkheim. He recognized that, if anything can explain how we as individuals relate to…
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