Suicide

An Unnecessary Death (Revised)
2. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-871739-3
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Approximately one million people worldwide commit suicide each year, and at least ten times as many attempt suicide. A considerable number of these people are in contact with members of the healthcare sector, and encounters with suicidal individuals form a common part of the everyday work of many healthcare professionals. Suicide: An unnecessary death examines the pharmacological, psychotherapeutic, and psychosocial measures adopted by psychiatrists, GPs, and other health-care staff, and emphasizes the need for a clearer psychodynamic understanding of the self if patients are to be successfully recognized, diagnosed, and treated.

Drawing on the latest research by leading international experts in the field of suicidology, this new edition provides clinicians with an accessible summary of the latest research into suicide and its prevention. The abundance of new literature can make it difficult for those whose clinical practice involves daily contact with suicidal patients to devote sufficient time to penetrating the research and, accordingly, apply new findings in their clinical practice. In light of the WHO Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020, this new edition is a timely contribution to the field, and a vital and rapid overview, that will increase awareness of suicide prevention methods.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wasserman, Danuta

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Section I Epidemiology

- 1: Alexandra Fleischmann: Suicide in the world

- Section II Theoretical models of suicide behaviour

- 2: Danuta Wasserman and Marcus Sokolowski: Stress-vulnerability model of suicidal behaviours

- 3: Danuta Wasserman: The suicidal process

- 4: J. John Mann and Victoria Arango: Neurobiology of suicide and attempted suicide

- 5: Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen: Social dimensions of suicide

- Section III Risk groups for suicide

- IIIA Psychiatric disorders

- 6: Danuta Wasserman: Depression, bipolar disorders and suicide

- 7: Danuta Wasserman: Alcohol, other psychoactive substance use disorders and suicide

- 8: Jan Fawcett: Anxiety and suicide

- 9: Danuta Wasserman: Eating disorders and suicide

- 10: Danuta Wasserman: Adjustment disorders and suicide

- 11: Alec Roy and Maurizio Pompili: Suicide risk in schizophrenia

- IIIB Personality disorders

- 12: Danuta Wasserman: Personality disorders and suicide

- IIIC Somatic disorders

- 13: Jouko Lönnqvist: Physical illnesses and suicide

- Section IV Risk situations for suicide

- 14: Danuta Wasserman: Negative life events and suicide

- 15: Danuta Wasserman: Suicidal people's experiences of trauma and negative life events

- 16: Lars Mehlum: Attempted suicide as a risk factor for suicide

- 17: Ahmed Hankir and Dinesh Bhugra: Immigrant populations and suicide

- 18: Marco Sarchiapone: Suicide in the Criminal Justice System

- 19: Vsevolod A. Rozanov: Suicide in the Armed Forces

- Section V Age-related suicide

- 20: Alan Apter and Yari Gvion: Adolescent suicide and attempted suicide

- 21: Siobhan T. O'Dwyer and Diego De Leo: Older adults and suicide

- Section VI Suicide Risk Assessment

- 22: Danuta Wasserman: Suicide risk assessment

- 23: Danuta Wasserman: The suicidal patient-doctor relationship

- 24: Gergö Hadlackzy: Heuristics and biases in suicide risk assessment

- 25: Per Bech, Lis R. Olsen, and Göran Högberg: Psychometric scales in suicide risk assessment

- 26: Danuta Wasserman: Strategies in suicide prevention

- Section VII Health care perspective

- 27: Hans-Jürgen Möller: Pharmacological treatment of underlying psychiatric disorders in suicidal patients

- 28: Megan Chesin, Andriy Yuryev, and Barbara Stanley: Psychological Treatments for Suicidal Individuals

- 29: Wolfgang Rutz and Zoltán Rihmer: Education of general practitioners in depression and suicide prevention

- 30: Jean-Pierre Soubrier: Collaboration between psychiatrists and other physicians

- 31: Danuta Wasserman: The work environment for healthcare staff

- 32: Karl Andriessen and Karolina Krysinska: A psycho-educational perspective on family involvement in suicide prevention and postvention

- Section VIII Public Health Perspective

- 33: Danuta Wasserman and Airi Värnik: Perestroika in the former USSR: history's most effective suicide-preventive programme for men

- 34: Annette L. Beautrais: Controlling the environment to prevent suicide

- 35: Vladimir Carli: Suicide prevention through the Internet

- 36: Danuta Wasserman and Véronique Narboni: Suicide prevention in schools

Über Autor(innen)

Professor in Psychiatry and Suicidology at Karolinska Institutet (KI), Danuta Wasserman is the Founding Head of the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) at KI, Stockholm, Sweden since 1993. She is also the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research, Methods Development and Training in Suicide Prevention, and expert advisor to the WHO Office in Copenhagen and Genève since 1995. Professor Wasserman was President of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) from January 2013 - January 2014. She is a former President of the International Academy of Suicide Research (IASR) and is also Honorary President of the Swedish-Estonian Institute of Suicidology. On a National and Nordic level, Professor Wasserman has built up a National Centre for Suicide Research and the Prevention of Mental Ill-Health and a strong Nordic research network on the prevention of mental disorders.