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Publisher & Imprint: Oxford University Press

City: Oxford

Pages: 400

More info: height 234 mm width 156 mm weight 734 gr thickness 28 mm

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Age recommended: Professional and scholarly

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey: 616.858445 Library of Congress Subject: Health Policy

Summary Prevention and Treatment of Suicidal Behaviour 1. Introduction and overview; 2. Factors contributing to suicide: the epidemiological evidence from large-scale registers; 3. Time trends and geographic differences in suicide: implications for prevention; 4. Contextual effects in suicidal behaviour: evidence, explanation and implications; 5. Psychology and suicidal behaviour: elaborating the entrapment model; 6. Psychobiological approaches to the predisposition to suicidal behaviour: implications for treatment and prevention; 7. Interplay of genes and environment as contributory factors in suicidal behaviour; 8. Traumatic stress and suicidal behaviour: an important target for treatment and prevention; 9. Making mental health services safer; 10. Risk factors for suicidal behaviour: translating knowledge into practice; 11. The burden of suicide and clinical suggestions for prevention; 12. Psychosocial treatments following attempted suicide: evidence to inform clinical practice; 13. Suicide in older adults: determinants of risk and opportunities for prevention; 14. The resistance of suicide: why haven't antidepressants reduced suicide rates? A Herman M van Praag; 15. Substance use and suicidal behaviour; 16. Restriction of access to methods of suicide as a means of suicide prevention; 17. Media influences on suicidal behaviour: evidence and prevention; 18. Suicide and suicide attempts in prisons; 19. Volunteer perspectives on suicide prevention; 20. Suicide survivorship: an unknown journey from loss to gain - from individual to global perspectives Top page

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