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An innovative and long overdue book by the world's leading researchers and practitioners, describing what really works in suicide prevention, the evidence for particular approaches, where the gaps are in our knowledge, and how we can fill them. Suicide rates have increased by 60% worldwide in the past 45 years, with deaths by suicide projected to reach 1.5 million by the year 2020. Despite millions being spent on suicide prevention activities, little is known about their effectiveness: As the US Suicide Prevention Action Network (SPAN) reported, "The single greatest obstacle to the effective prevention of suicide is the lack of evaluation research." Evidence-based medicine involves the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients - which means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research. This substantive and authoritative volume shows for the first time how evidence-based approaches can be used in suicide prevention - as well as where evidence is lacking and how we might obtain it. Leading researchers and practitioners describe what really works in suicide prevention, the evidence for and against particular approaches, both in general terms (such as by means of hotlines, restriction of means, psychopharmocology) and for specific disorders (such as schizophrenia, personality disorder), and make specific recommendations about where we go from here.

Evidence-Based Practice in Suicidology: A Source Book. Forew.: Gray, Muir

Table of Contents

Foreword - Evidence-Based Practice in Suicidology: A Source Book by Sir Muir Gray
The Framework
Evidence-Based Practice in Suicidology: What We Need and What We Need to Know by Maurizio Pompili
Evidence-Based Medicine in Mental Health: General Principles by Delia Cimpean and Robert Drake
Improving Suicide Risk Assessment With Evidence-Based Psychiatry by Robert I. Simon
The World Health Organization: Approach to Evidence-Based Suicide Prevention by Diego De Leo
Evidence-Based Strategies for Suicide Prevention
Evidence-Based Suicide Prevention Strategies: An Overview by J. John Mann and Dianne Currier
Evidence-Based Psychotherapy With Suicidal People: A Systematic Review by Antoon A. Leenaars
Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions for Suicidal Behavior: What Is the Evidence? by James R. Rogers, Teri L. Madura, and Jennifer L. Hardy
Evidence-Based Suicide Prevention by Helplines: A Meta-Analysis by David Lester
Suicide Prevention Programs Through Education in the Community and in the Frame of Healthcare by Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis and Zolta´n Rihmer
Evidence-Based Interventions for Preventing Suicide in Youths by Maurizio Pompili, Marco Innamorati, Paolo Girardi, Roberto Tatarelli, and David Lester
Suicide Prevention in Late Life: Is There Sound Evidence for Practice? by Marco Innamorati, Maurizio Pompili, Mario Amore, Cristina Di Vittorio, Gianluca Serafini, Roberto Tatarelli, and David Lester
Evidence-Based Suicide Prevention by Lethal Methods Restriction by David Lester
Psychopharmacology for Suicide Prevention by Ross J. Baldessarini and Leonardo Tondo
Evidence-Based Approaches for Specific Disorders and Behaviors
Risk Is Not Static Over the Lifespan: Accurately Accounting for Suicide Prevalence in Major Mental Illness by John Michael Bostwick
Evidence-Based Approaches for Reducing Suicide Risk in Major Affective Disorders by Isaac Sakinofsky
Evidence-Based Treatment for Reducing Suicide Risk in Schizophrenia by Herbert Y. Meltzer
Evidence-Based Approach to Suicide Risk in First-Episode Psychosis by Merete Nordentoft
Reducing Suicide Risk in Personality Disorders: The State of Current Evidence by Joel Paris
Where Do We Go From Here?
Perspectives in Suicide Research and Prevention: A Commentary by Alan L. Berman
Where Is More Evidence Needed? Research Priorities in Suicidology by David Lester
Index