The most comprehensive and current evidence-based coverage of suicide treatment and assessment for mental health students and practitioners, this book prepares readers how to react when clients reveal suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The components of suicide assessments, empirically-supported treatments, and ethical and legal issues that may arise are reviewed. Vignettes, role play exercises, quizzes, and case studies engage readers to enhance learning.

Highlights include:

Provides everything one needs to know about evidence-based suicide treatments including crisis intervention, cognitive-behavioral, dialectical behavior, and interpersonal therapies, and motivational interviewing.Examines the risk of suicide ideation and behaviors across the lifespan (children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly) and across vulnerable populations (homeless, prisoners, and more).Considers suicide within the context of religion and spirituality, age, race and ethnicity including prevalence, trends, and risk factors.Explores ethical considerations such as informed consent, confidentiality, liability, and euthanasia.Reviews suicidal behaviors across demographics and diagnostic groups including depressive, bipolar, personality, substance-related, and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.Individual and Small Group Exercises allow readers to consider their personal reactions to the material and how this might impact their clinical practice and compare their reactions with others.Case Examples that depict realistic scenarios that readers may encounter in practice.Role Plays that provide a chance to practice difficult scenarios that may arise when working with suicidal clients.Reviews key material in each chapter via Goals and Objectives, Knowledge Acquisition Tests, and Key Points to help students prepare for exams.Provides answers to the Knowledge Acquisition Tests in the instructor's resources.

New to this edition:

Expanded coverage of suicide and mental illness, including updating to the DSM-5 and the addition of new diagnostic categories including bipolar and personality disorders.Expanded coverage of at-risk populations including new chapters on veterans and military personnel and LGBTQ individuals.New chapter on motivational interviewing explores how this treatment has been adapted to address suicidal behavior.Expanded coverage of surviving a suicide as a family member, friend, and mental health professional.

Intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in suicide assessment and prevention, crisis intervention, crisis counseling or assessment, or advanced techniques taught in social work, counseling, psychology, public health, nursing, and medicine, this book is also appropriate for mental health and health professionals in these areas.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Ethical and Philosophical Issues in Suicide

Chapter 2: The Role of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in Suicide

Chapter 3: Religion and Suicide

Part II: Suicidality Across the Life Span

Chapter 4: Child and Adolescent Suicide

Chapter 5: Adult Suicide

Chapter 6: Older Adult Suicide

Part III: Suicide and Mental Illness

Chapter 7: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders and Suicide

Chapter 8: Schizophrenia and Suicide

Chapter 9: Substance-Related Disorders and Suicide

Chapter 10: Personality Disorders and Suicide

Part IV: At-Risk Populations

Chapter 11: Active Military Personnel and Veterans

Chapter 12: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ)

Chaoter 13: Other At-Risk Groups

Part V: Assessing Suicide

Chapter 14: Guidelines for Suicide Risk Assessment

Part VI: Evidence-Based Treatments

Chapter 15: Crisis Intervention and Suicide

Chapter 16: Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Suicide

Chapter 17: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Suicide

Chapter 18: Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) and Suicide

Chapter 19: Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Suicide

Part VII: Surviving Suicide

Chapter 20: Survivors of Suicide: Family and Friends

Chapter 21: Survivors of Suicide: Mental Health Professionals

References

Index