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A Comprehensive Guide to Suicidal Behaviours: Working with Individuals at Risk and their Families
Over a million people commit suicide worldwide every year. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at the person at risk, the family and personal relationships they have and the communities in which they are embedded, this book will help anyone working with suicidal individuals to prevent this major cause of death.
Backed up by research and clinical expertise the book clarifies the facts about suicide and debunks the many unfounded myths surrounding the subject. It covers the classifications and manifestations of suicide, as well as the major risk factors, at-risk groups and warning signs. Advice on effective communication and a repertoire of strategies for distress management are offered, not only for supporting at-risk individuals and those who have survived a suicide attempt, but also families coping with bereavement. A final chapter explores the impact of the internet and the digital age on both the propagation and prevention of suicide.
This book will be essential reading for anybody working with people at risk of suicide, including clinicians, therapists, psychologists, social and healthcare workers and volunteers working in suicide prevention.
Backed up by research and clinical expertise the book clarifies the facts about suicide and debunks the many unfounded myths surrounding the subject. It covers the classifications and manifestations of suicide, as well as the major risk factors, at-risk groups and warning signs. Advice on effective communication and a repertoire of strategies for distress management are offered, not only for supporting at-risk individuals and those who have survived a suicide attempt, but also families coping with bereavement. A final chapter explores the impact of the internet and the digital age on both the propagation and prevention of suicide.
This book will be essential reading for anybody working with people at risk of suicide, including clinicians, therapists, psychologists, social and healthcare workers and volunteers working in suicide prevention.
194 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 15, 2012
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June 25, 2021
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I like this because it's not too technical. It is easy to read and easy to understand. Few things that stuck into me while reading the first two chapters,
• Suicidal behavior is complex. It's not a feeling to be so easily brushed off like what my mom always says. (No hard feelings to my mom).
•Suicide bombers think that they are martyrs. It is an idea I never fully grasped when I was writing a paper about religious terrorism when I was 16./7. It was rampant back then and, it is only now that I fully understood why they do the atrocious act. They have a lot to gain more than they value their life. Suicide bombers are seen within their own cultures as promoting prestige within their culture by committing a planned act that enhances the status of their family or clan.
•I find the custom of suttee, wherein the widows of certain Brahman and royal families in India had to die in their husband's funeral piles, absurd and unjust. I first came across this tradition while reading a manhwa and, I am glad that this was declared illegal in 1982.
•Immersing yourself in a warm bath during exsanguination makes the process of dying faster. When I was younger, I thought that people choose to die in a bathtub because it was more dramatic. I only ever see that on TV and, it was a fleeting thought. (It is insensitive. I know. But I was young then and still lack the knowledge that I have now). But, this makes pretty sense to me now as a med student because vasodilation does occur during warm temperatures.
I am engrossed in this book. I am so excited to read the succeeding chapters.
I like this because it's not too technical. It is easy to read and easy to understand. Few things that stuck into me while reading the first two chapters,
• Suicidal behavior is complex. It's not a feeling to be so easily brushed off like what my mom always says. (No hard feelings to my mom).
•Suicide bombers think that they are martyrs. It is an idea I never fully grasped when I was writing a paper about religious terrorism when I was 16./7. It was rampant back then and, it is only now that I fully understood why they do the atrocious act. They have a lot to gain more than they value their life. Suicide bombers are seen within their own cultures as promoting prestige within their culture by committing a planned act that enhances the status of their family or clan.
•I find the custom of suttee, wherein the widows of certain Brahman and royal families in India had to die in their husband's funeral piles, absurd and unjust. I first came across this tradition while reading a manhwa and, I am glad that this was declared illegal in 1982.
•Immersing yourself in a warm bath during exsanguination makes the process of dying faster. When I was younger, I thought that people choose to die in a bathtub because it was more dramatic. I only ever see that on TV and, it was a fleeting thought. (It is insensitive. I know. But I was young then and still lack the knowledge that I have now). But, this makes pretty sense to me now as a med student because vasodilation does occur during warm temperatures.
I am engrossed in this book. I am so excited to read the succeeding chapters.
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