Overview
Even the most skilled therapist may underestimate suicide potential. Careful assessment and competent psychiatric intervention cannot always predict the suicidality of a particular person. Adolescent Suicide (GAP Report 140) presents techniques that allow psychiatrists and all those caring for the health and welfare of adolescents to respond to signals of distress with timely therapeutic intervention. It also suggests measures of anticipatory prevention. Adolescent Suicide presents an overview of adolescent suicidal behavior. It explores risk factors, the identification and evaluation of the suicidal adolescent, and approaches to therapy. It offers both historical and cross-cultural perspectives, the relevance of suicide to adolescent development, mental health training needs regarding suicidality, and related issues such as public health policies and medicolegal concerns. The risk of suicide presents a unique crisis in adolescent development. For this reason, all mental health professionals will find this report an indispensable tool in the treatment of adolescents at risk for suicide. Drawing from years of combined experience, this committee has applied its expertise on adolescent development to the sobering problem of suicide.
Full Product Details
Author: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
Publisher: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry,U.S.
Imprint: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry,U.S.
Volume: No. 140
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9780873182089
ISBN 10: 0873182081
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 01 April 1996
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
[A] timely effort to provide information to those who treat and otherwise come into contact with adolescents who may be suicidal or who are at risk. -- Psychiatric Times Adolescent Suicide is pleasantly written and organized.... [T]he book is educated, timely, biopsychosocially integrated, and full of useful facts, concepts and questions. It is quite likely to last for a while. I recommend it. -- American Journal of Psychiatry Adolescent Suicide is a well-written and comprehensive but succinct text that provides as good an overview as exists in print. It is highly recommended, and it should be read by all mental health professionals who work with adolescents.... Anyone interested in an overview of adolescent suicide will benefit for the GAP monograph. -- Psychiatric Services
<p> [A] timely effort to provide information to those who treat and otherwise come into contact with adolescents who may be suicidal or who are at risk. -- Psychiatric Times
