Treating Suicidal Behavior: An Effective, Time-Limited Approach

by M. David Rudd, Thomas E. Joiner, M. Hasan Rajab

Grounded in a comprehensive model of suicidality, this volume describes an empirically supported cognitive-behavioral treatment approach. The clinician is guided to assess suicidal behavior and implement interventions tailored to the severity, chronicity, and diagnostic complexity of the patient's symptoms. Provided are session-by-session guidelines and clear-cut strategies for defusing the initial crisis; reducing suicidal behavior; restructuring suicide-related beliefs; and building interpersonal assertiveness, distress tolerance, problem solving, and other key skills. A special chapter covers risk assessment. Enhancing the book's utility are tables, figures, and sample handouts and forms, some of which may be reproduced for professional use.

Genres: Psychology

274 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Robert Bogue]

What started here would eventually become brief cognitive-behavioral therapy for suicide prevention (BCBT-SP). In Treating Suicidal Behavior: An Effective, Time-Limited Approach, David Rudd, Thomas Joiner, and Hasan Rajab review what works in therapy of suicidal patients – and the current state of the literature. Craig Bryan and David Rudd would publish Brief Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention. Of course, Thomas Joiner would go on to write Why People Die by Suicide and Myths about Suicide – among other works.

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[Narges Shegeft · Rating 5 out of 5]

بسیار جامع بود، زبان ساده و مثال های واضحی داشت. از ماهیت خودکشی‌گرایی گرفته تا چگونگی درمان آن در کتاب توضیح داده شده بود.