Suicidal Behavior - Couverture souple

McKeon, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0889375062 ISBN 13 : 9780889375062

Editeur : Hogrefe Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

Learn how to assess and treat clients at risk of suicide: * Incorporates the latest research * Highlights the best risk assessment and treatment practices * Presents new models explaining the development of suicidal ideation * Clear guidance on crisis management and documentation * Full of hands-on tips, case examples, and clinical pearls With more than 800,000 deaths worldwide each year, suicide is one of the leading causes of death. The second edition of this volume incorporates the latest research, showing which empirically supported approaches to assessment, management, and treatment really help those at risk. Updates include comprehensively updated epidemiological data, the role opioid use problems, personality disorders, and trauma play in suicide, new models explaining the development of suicidal ideation, and the zero suicide model. This book aims to increase clinicians' access to empirically supported interventions for suicidal behavior, with the hope that these methods will become the standard in clinical practice. The book is invaluable as a compact how-to reference for clinicians in their daily work and as an educational resource for students and for practice-oriented continuing education. It's reader-friendly structure makes liberal use of tables, boxed clinical examples, and clinical vignettes. The book, which also addresses common obstacles in treating individuals at risk for suicide, is an essential resource for anyone working with this high-risk population.

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À propos de l'auteur

Richard McKeon, PhD, MPH, received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona, and a master of public health in health administration from Columbia University. He has spent most of his career working in community mental health, including 11 years as director of a psychiatric emergency service and 4 years as associate administrator / clinical director of a hospital-based community mental health center in Newton, New Jersey. He established the first evidenced-based treatment program for chronically suicidal borderline patients in the state of New Jersey utilizing Marsha Linehan's Dialectical Behavior Therapy. In 2001, he was awarded an American Psychological Association Congressional Fellowship and worked for US Senator Paul Wellstone, covering health and mental health policy issues. He spent 5 years on the Board of the American Association of Suicidology as Clinical Division Director and has also served on the Board of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He is currently Chief of the Suicide Prevention Branch for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the US Department of Health and Human Services. He also serves as Co-Chair of the Federal Working Group on Suicide Prevention and participated in the development of the World Suicide Report for the World Health Organization.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hogrefe Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0889375062
• ISBN 13: 9780889375062
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible