| Description |
1 online resource (555 pages) |
| Summary |
"Intended for the general reader, this masterful compilation probes the psychology of suicide, revealing the latest research and spotlighting global efforts to reduce the million suicide deaths each year"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Volume 1. Understanding. Defining suicide and suicidal behavior -- The phenomenology of suicide -- The ethics of suicide: philosophical and religious perspectives -- The suicidal mind -- The neurophysiology of suicide -- Examining the role of adverse life events and daily hassles in suicide -- The role of psychiatric disorder -- Interpersonal dynamics and suicide -- Self-harm and suicide -- Explaining national suicide rates -- Suicide and culture -- A case study: seeking to understand a suicide -- Volume 2. Prevention. Evidenced-based approaches to suicide prevention -- Neurobiology, psychopharmacology, and the prevention of suicide -- Psychotherapy for suicidal clients -- Suicide prevention centers -- Hospitalization as suicide prevention -- Suicide prevention programs in schools -- Prevention of suicide through the education of primary care physicians -- Preventing suicide by restricting access to methods for suicide -- Survivors of suicide: living beyond the grief -- The role of national prevention strategies, organizations, and campaigns in the prevention of suicide -- Assisted suicide -- Suicide prevention in Hong Kong: opportunities and challenges. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Suicide -- Psychology.
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Suicide -- Prevention.
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Suicide -- Control.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Suicide -- psychology.
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Suicide Prevention.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lester, David, 1942- editor.
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Rogers, James R., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Suicide. Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2013] 9781440800801 (DLC) 2013018980 (OCoLC)843124255 |
| ISBN |
1440800812 (electronic bk.) |
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130608783X (electronic bk.) |
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9781306087834 (electronic bk.) |
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9781440800818 (electronic bk.) |
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