Suicide : an unnecessary death / edited by Danuta Wasserman ; contributors, Karl Andriessen [and thirty-four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wasserman, Danuta, editor.

Andriessen, Karl, contributor.

Standardized Title:

Suicide (Wasserman)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suicide.

Suicide--Risk factors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

'Suicide' examines the pharmacological, psychotherapeutic, and psychosocial measures adopted by psychiatrists, GPs, and other health-care staff, and emphasizes the need for a clearer psychodynamic understanding of the self if patients are to be successfully recognized, diagnosed and treated.

Contents:

Cover ; Contents; About the editor; About the contributors; Foreword; Norman L Farberow; Foreword; Shekhar Saxena; Preface; Danuta Wasserman; Section I Epidemiology; 1 Suicide in the world; Alexandra Fleischmann; Section II Theoretical models of suicide behaviour; 2 Stress-vulnerability model of suicidal behaviours; Danuta Wasserman and Marcus Sokolowski; 3 The suicidal process; Danuta Wasserman; 4 Neurobiology of suicide and attempted suicide; J John Mann and Victoria Arango; 5 Social dimensions of suicide; Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen; Section III Risk groups for suicide; IIIA Psychiatric disorders

6 Depression, bipolar disorders, and suicideDanuta Wasserman; 7 Alcohol, other psychoactive substance use disorders, and suicide; Danuta Wasserman; 8 Anxiety and suicide; Jan Fawcett; 9 Eating disorders and suicide; Danuta Wasserman; 10 Adjustment disorders and suicide; Danuta Wasserman; 11 Suicide risk in schizophrenia; Alec Roy and Maurizio Pompili; IIIB Personality disorders; 12 Personality disorders and suicide; Danuta Wasserman; IIIC Somatic disorders; 13 Physical illnesses and suicide; Jouko Lönnqvist; Section IV Risk situations for suicide; 14 Negative life events and suicide

Danuta Wasserman15 Suicidal people's experiences of trauma and negative life events; Danuta Wasserman; 16 Attempted suicide as a risk factor for suicide; Lars Mehlum; 17 Immigrant populations and suicide; Ahmed Hankir and Dinesh Bhugra; 18 Suicide in the criminal justice system; Marco Sarchiapone; 19 Suicide in the armed forces; Vsevolod A Rozanov; Section V Age-related suicide; 20 Adolescent suicide and attempted suicide; Alan Apter and Yari Gvion; 21 Older adults and suicide; Siobhan T O'Dwyer and Diego De Leo; Section VI Suicide risk assessment; 22 Suicide risk assessment; Danuta Wasserman

23 The suicidal patient-doctor relationshipDanuta Wasserman; 24 Heuristics and biases in suicide risk assessment; Gergö Hadlaczky; 25 Psychometric scales in suicide risk assessment; Per Bech, Lis R Olsen, and Göran Högberg; 26 Strategies in suicide prevention; Danuta Wasserman; Section VII Suicide prevention; VIIA Health-care perspective; 27 Pharmacological treatment of underlying psychiatric disorders in suicidal patients; Hans-Jürgen Möller; 28 Psychological treatments for suicidal individuals; Megan Chesin, Andriy Yur'yev, and Barbara Stanley

29 Education of general practitioners in depression and suicide preventionWolfgang Rutz and Zoltán Rihmer; 30 Collaboration between psychiatrists and other physicians; Jean-Pierre Soubrier; 31 The work environment for health-care staff; Danuta Wasserman; 32 A psycho-educational perspective on family involvement in suicide prevention and postvention; Karl Andriessen and Karolina Krysinska; VIIIB Public health perspective; 33 Perestroika in the former USSR: history's most effective suicide-preventive programme for men; Danuta Wasserman and Airi Värnik

34 Controlling the environment to prevent suicide

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 20, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-102684-0

0-19-178696-9

0-19-102683-2