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Working with suicidal individuals : a guide to providing understanding, assessment and support / Tony White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Tony, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suicidal behavior.
- Suicidal behavior--Treatment.
- Suicide--Risk factors.
- Suicide.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Working with Suicidal Individuals provides a comprehensive guide to understanding suicide, the assessment of risk, and the treatment and management of suicidal individuals. It covers the theory behind suicidal behaviour, using Transactional Analysis to explore the personality types of suicidal individuals and to understand their motivations.
- Contents:
- What is suicide?
- Transactional analysis
- The suicide decision
- Modeling suicidal behaviour
- Reactions to high stress
- Suicide and self-harm
- Quantitative measures of assessing suicide risk
- Qualitative measures of assessing suicide risk
- The suicide secret and the deliberate suicide risk
- Pseudo suicide, suicide, and teenage suicide
- Suicidal ambivalence
- Suicidal timelines
- The no suicide contract
- Redecision therapy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781283907255
- 1283907259
- 9780857002242
- 0857002244
- OCLC:
- 711747334
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