Suicide Prevention

Navneet Kapur; Robert D. Goldney

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Suicide Prevention (3 edn)

Navneet Kapur and Robert D. Goldney

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Abstract

Suicide is a major public health and mental health challenge and claims as many as one million lives worldwide each year. It is also an individual tragedy with devastating consequences for family members, friends, and others who have been bereaved. Attempted suicide and suicidal behaviour are even more common. In recent years there has been an enormous amount of research and a growing realization that suicide can be prevented. There are approaches that we can use at societal and individual levels which will potentially save lives. This book provides a comprehensive but concise overview of the field of suicide prevention. It places suicide in a historical context before highlighting its complexity and possible causes. It goes on to discuss public health strategies and policy as well as psychological and pharmacological approaches to treatment and prevention. It also includes guidance for assessing people who present to services with suicidal thoughts or behaviours, along with a number of case vignettes. Suicide bereavement and technology-based approaches to intervention are discussed, and frequently asked questions on topics as diverse as enquiring about suicidal thoughts, rational suicide, and suicide terrorism are answered. This text is practical in its focus but strongly evidence-based and will be relevant to all those with an interest in preventing suicide.

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Sep 2019

Print ISBN-13:: 9780198791607

Published online:: Oct 2019

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780198791607.001.0001

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Navneet Kapur, author Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health, University of Manchester and Honorary Consultant in Psychiatry, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Robert D. Goldney, author Emeritus Professor, Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide

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