ABSTRACT
Suicide remains one of the most pressing public health concerns across the world. Expensive in terms of the human cost and associated suffering, the economic costs, the social costs and the spiritual costs, it affects millions of people every year.
This important reference work collects together a wide range of research around suicide and suicide prevention, in order to guide future research and provide guidance for professionals about the best way to respond meaningfully to suicidal patients. Responding to the need for multi-disciplinary and international research to deepen our understanding of suicide, it demonstrates where our knowledge is firmly evidence-based and where new areas for research are emerging, as well as highlighting where we know little.
Divided into six parts, each with its own editorial introduction and commentary, it explores research with and about survivors of suicide and indigenous populations. The remaining sections look at suicide-focused research in psychiatric nursing, psychiatry, psychology, and social work and allied health. It is of interest to all advanced students, practitioners and scholars interested in suicide and its impact and prevention.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
part |74 pages
Nursing
chapter |15 pages
A Mixed Methods Study of the Increased Risk of Suicide Following Discharge
chapter |11 pages
Providing Meaningful Care
part |65 pages
Psychiatry
chapter |2 pages
Editorial Introduction
chapter |9 pages
Means Restriction As A Suicide Prevention Strategy
chapter |13 pages
Suicide-Related Behaviour in Chinese Women
part |64 pages
Psychology
part |63 pages
Social work and allied health care disciplines
chapter |12 pages
What Changes? What Does It Mean?
chapter |12 pages
Motivation, Resisting, Considering and Accepting
part |54 pages
Suicide survivors
chapter |10 pages
The Loss Team: An Important Postvention Component of Suicide Prevention
chapter |9 pages
“Nobody Talks about Suicide, Except if They're Kidding”
chapter |9 pages
Supporting Mothers Bereaved By Suicide in Northern Ireland
part |75 pages
Indigenous peoples