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New edition of an acclaimed manual which uses the solution focused approach to take an empathetic and validating approach to working with individuals considering suicide. * Offers invaluable guidance for suicide prevention by showing what works in treating those struggling with suicidal thoughts * Provides straightforward ways to deal frankly with the subject of suicide, along with a range of tools and techniques that are helpful to clients * Includes actual dialogue between practitioners and clients to allow readers to gain a better understanding of how to work with suicidal clients * Compares and contrasts a ground-breaking approach to suicide prevention with more traditional approaches to risk assessment and management * Features numerous updates and revisions along with brand new sections dealing with the international landscape, blaming the suicided person, Dr Alys Cole-King s Connecting with People , and telephone work with the suicidal, Human Givens Therapy, and zero suicide

Preventing Suicide - The Solution Focused Approach 2e

About the author vii Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi 1 How to use this book 1 2 The book s style and purpose 4 3 Defining suicide and self ]injury 24 4 Current service provision: risk assessment, management and medication 32 5 Other approaches to helping the suicidal 49 6 What is Solution Focused Brief Therapy? 70 7 Suicide encounters: the crucial first ten minutes 112 8 The solution focused approach in working with the suicidal 123 9 Case study: Reg and the demons calling from the deep 152 10 Some more case vignettes 175 11 Connecting with people by Alys Cole-King 185 12 Working on the phone with the suicidal person 199 13 Blaming those who took their lives 208 14 International solution focused applications to suicide prevention 215 15 Zero suicide: should this be our goal? 245 16 Where do we go from here? 253 Appendix 1: Flow diagram for an episode of treatment 264 Appendix 2: Specialist solution focused training workshops 268 Appendix 3: Evidence base for solution ]focused working 270 References 278 Index 314