- Offers invaluable guidance for suicide prevention by showing “what works” in treating those struggling with suicidal thoughts
- Provides straightforward ways to deal frankly with the subject of suicide, along with a range of tools and techniques that are helpful to clients
- Includes actual dialogue between practitioners and clients to allow readers to gain a better understanding of how to work with suicidal clients
- Compares and contrasts a ground-breaking approach to suicide prevention with more traditional approaches to risk assessment and management
- Features numerous updates and revisions along with brand new sections dealing with the international landscape, blaming the suicided person, Dr Alys Cole-King’s ‘Connecting with People’, and telephone work with the suicidal, Human Givens Therapy, and zero suicide
Table of Contents
About the author vii
About the author vii
Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
1 How to use this book 1
2 The book’s style and purpose 4
3 Defining suicide and selfÂ]injury 24
4 Current service provision: risk assessment, management and medication 32
5 Other approaches to helping the suicidal 49
6 What is Solution Focused Brief Therapy? 70
7 Suicide encounters: the crucial first ten minutes 112
8 The solution focused approach in working with the suicidal 123
9 Case study: Reg and ‘the demons calling from the deep’ 152
10 Some more case vignettes 175
11 Connecting with people by Alys Cole-King 185
12 Working on the phone with the suicidal person 199
13 Blaming those who took their lives 208
14 International solution focused applications to suicide prevention 215
15 Zero suicide: should this be our goal? 245
16 Where do we go from here? 253
Appendix 1: Flow diagram for an episode of treatment 264
Appendix 2: Specialist solution focused training workshops 268
Appendix 3: Evidence base for solutionÂ]focused working 270
References 278
Index 314
