Understanding Suicidal Behaviour
The Suicidal Process Approach to Research, Treatment and Prevention
Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology
April 2001
336 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
NEW IN PAPERBACK
How can suicide be prevented and treated by mental health
professionals?
Understanding Suicidal Behaviour offers a clinical guide to the
assessment, treatment and prevention of suicidal behaviour, from a
new and useful theoretical perspective. The book presents the
arguments and research evidence that suicidal behaviour is not just
a response to current emotional crises, but is influenced by
persistent characteristics that can be defined in psychological and
biological terms.
The approach in this book accommodates and goes beyond previous
aspects thought important in suicidal behaviour, like mental
disorder and social stress.
The key concept of vulnerability may provide new approaches to
treatment to supplement the existing treatments, which are of
limited efficacy.
Challenges professionals to understand suicidal behaviour from a
basis of vulnerability, personality, and development - and as a
process that includes social, biological, and psychological
interactions
Offers ways in predicting suicidal behaviour and indicating
earlier, effective interventions
Cutting edge discussion of implications for the study and
treatment of suicidal behaviour, by some of the leading authorities
in the field
"...warrants a place on the shelf of any suicidologist, clinician
or researcher with an interest in suicidal behaviour...the editor
and contributors ought to be commended on a comprehensive and lucid
volume." British Journal of Clinical Psychology
List of Contributors.
Introduction.
THE SUICIDAL PROCESS: AN OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH FINDINGS.
The Suicidal Process and Related Concepts (K. van Heeringen).
Pathways to Suicide: The Epidemiology of the Suicidal Process (A.
Kerkhof & E. Arensman).
Stress and Suicidal Behaviour (L. Traskman-Bendz & ?.
Westrin).
About the Biological Interface between Psychotraumatic Experiences
and Affective Dysregulation (H. van Praag).
Psychological Aspects of the Suicidal Process (J. Williams & L.
Pollock).
Personality Constellations and Suicidal Behaviour (A. Apter &
H. Ofek).
Ethology and the Suicidal Process (R. Goldney).
Towards a Psychobiological Model of the Suicidal Process (K. van
Heeringen).
THE SUICIDAL PROCESS APPROACH: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE UNDERSTANDING
AND TREATMENT OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR.
Suicide Risk Assessment and the Suicidal-Process Approach (L. Amsel
& J. Mann).
The Suicidal Process and Society (U. Bille-Brahe).
The Treatment of Suicidal Behaviour in the Context of the Suicidal
Process (K. Hawton).
Suicide as Goal-directed Action (K. Michel & L. Valach).
Psychopharmacological Approaches to the Suicidal Process (K. Malone
& M. Moran).
Psychotherapeutic Implications of the Suicidal Process Approach (I.
Kienhorst & K. van Heeringen).
The Process Approach to Suicidal Behaviour: Future Directions in
Research, Treatment and Prevention (K. van Heeringen).
Author Index.
Subject Index.
researcher with an interest in suicidal behaviour..the editor and
contributors ought to be commended on a comprehensive and lucid
volume." (British Journal of Clinical Psychology)
"This book suggests treatments and interventions that may
prevent those we can reach completing suicide and offers greater
understanding of the suicide process that may enable us to help
those who survive the people did not reach." (Mental Health Today,
February 2002)
"...For those of you who daily encounter this problem I
have no hesitation in recommending this book..." (Accident
& Emergency Nursing, No.10, 2002)
"...a book that does exactly what it says on the
cover...a wealth of experience in a highly accessible
volume..." (European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry,
Vol 12(313), 2003)
