Suicide : a global issue /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Lester, David, 1942- (Editor), Rogers, James R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, 2013.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Volume 1. Understanding. Defining suicide and suicidal behavior
  • The phenomenology of suicide
  • The ethics of suicide: philosophical and religious perspectives
  • The suicidal mind
  • The neurophysiology of suicide
  • Examining the role of adverse life events and daily hassles in suicide
  • The role of psychiatric disorder
  • Interpersonal dynamics and suicide
  • Self-harm and suicide
  • Explaining national suicide rates
  • Suicide and culture
  • A case study: seeking to understand a suicide
  • Volume 2. Prevention. Evidenced-based approaches to suicide prevention
  • Neurobiology, psychopharmacology, and the prevention of suicide
  • Psychotherapy for suicidal clients
  • Suicide prevention centers
  • Hospitalization as suicide prevention
  • Suicide prevention programs in schools
  • Prevention of suicide through the education of primary care physicians
  • Preventing suicide by restricting access to methods for suicide
  • Survivors of suicide: living beyond the grief
  • The role of national prevention strategies, organizations, and campaigns in the prevention of suicide
  • Assisted suicide
  • Suicide prevention in Hong Kong: opportunities and challenges.