Overview

Here is a concise guidebook for mental health professionals on how to assess whether a client is at risk for suicide. Written by the author of the leading reference on clinical interviewing, this practical manual offers busy front-line clinicians a rapid, thorough, and sensitive interviewing strategy to determine lethal risk. This paperback version includes new appendices on suicide assessment instruments and how counselors can protect themselves during forensic inquiries.

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Author:   S.C. Shea
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.539kg
ISBN:  

9780471237617

ISBN 10:   0471237612
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   22 August 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Foreword by David A. Jobes, PhD. Preface to the Paperback Edition. Preface. Acknowledgments to Paperback Edition. Acknowledgments. PART ONE: THE EXPERIENCE OF SUICIDE: ETIOLOGY, PHENOMENOLOGY, AND RISK FACTORS. 1. Suicide: The Ultimate Paradox. 2. Descent into the Maelstrom: Etiology and Phenomenology of Suicide. 3. Risk Factors: Harbingers of Death. PART TWO: UNCOVERING SUICIDAL IDEATION: PRINCIPLES, TECHNIQUES, AND STRATEGIES. 4. Before the Interview Begins: Overcoming the Taboo against Talking about Suicide. 5. Validity Techniques: Simple Tools for Uncovering Complex Secrets. 6. Eliciting Suicidal Ideation: Practical Techniques and Effective Strategies. PART THREE: PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT OF RISK: FLEXIBLE STRATEGIES AND SOUND FORMULATIONS. 7. Putting It All Together: Safe and Effective Decision Making. Appendix A: How to Document a Suicide Assessment. Appendix B: Safety Contracting Revisited: Pros, Cons, and Documentation. Appendix C: A Quick Guide to Suicide Prevention Web Sites. Index.

Reviews

Shea s approach to suicide risk assessment is at once elegant in its simplicity and comprehensive in its scope and depth. (Preventing Suicide, 3/1/2004) This book is, to date, one of the most helpful and well written works about the in depth evaluation of suicidal patients. (The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Volume 191, Number 10, October 2003)

Author Information

SHAWN CHRISTOPHER SHEA, MD, is a nationally acclaimed workshop leader and innovator in the field of diagnostic interviewing and author of the bestselling text, Psychiatric Interviewing: The Art of Understanding, Second Edition. He is also Director of the Training Institute for Suicide Assessment and Clinical Interviewing (www suicideassessment.com) and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire.

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