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An authoritative introduction to identifying and assessing suicidal behaviour, this highly informative text explores both therapeutic interventions and postvention issues. Aimed at front-line workers, it takes a non-medicalised approach and provides the reader with a toolbox of practical skills to support their work in practice.Contents include Understanding Suicide and Self-harm 2. Self-harm, Suicide and Stigma 3. Risk and Protective Factors for Self-harm and Suicide 4. Suicide and Self-Harm Across the Life-Span 5. Understanding and Responding to Self-Harm 6. Communicating with People who are Suicidal 7. Self-care: Professional and Personal Considerations 8. Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention and Reduction 9. Postvention 10. Self-harm and Suicide in Prisons, Schools and Emergency Departments.
Featured in the Autumn 2015 Social Work newsletter.
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