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Highly commended in the Mental Health category in the BMA Medical Book Competition 2006
Prevention and Treatment of Suicidal Behaviour:
From science to practice
Edited by Keith Hawton
396 pages
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numerous tables and line drawings
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234x156mm
978-0-19-852976-7
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Paperback
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29 September 2005
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This item is printed to order and supplied on a firm sale basis. Items which are printed to order are normally despatched and charged within 5-10 days.
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- Contains chapters written by the international leaders in their fields, providing the highest quality of evidence and advice regarding the prevention and treatment of suicidal behaviour
- Superbly edited by one of the world authorities on suicidal behaviour
- Includes perspectives from clinical practice, epidemiology, public health and social medicine
Worldwide, at least 1 million people die by suicide each year and many millions more attempt suicide. However, suicide has been increasingly recognised as a preventable problem in many cases. Because of this, and the rising rates of suicide in young people, many countries have established national suicide prevention strategies. These include the United Kingdom, the USA, Scandinavian countries, other countries in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. There is also increasing emphasis on the treatment of suicidal people and those who have made suicide attempts. In order to be effective it is imperative that strategies for
treatment and prevention are based on sound scientific evidence.
In this book leading figures from psychiatry, psychology, epidemiology, public health, and social medicine bring together the research evidence concerning the key elements in suicide prevention and treatment of suicidal behaviour and translate it into implications for practical action. This includes social and public health policy as well as clinical practice. The book draws together the evidence relevant to treatment and prevention, and uses this in order to highlight the most effective approaches. The range of initiatives covered is wide, reflecting the complex nature of suicide and hence the need for a range of approaches. This book will be an essential source for anyone concerned with the design and
implementation of effective suicide prevention strategies, including clinicians working with individual patients, strategic policy makers, and researchers. Readership: Researchers, policy makers involved with suicide and its prevention. Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and accident and emergency medical staff.
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Edited by Keith Hawton, Professor and Director of the Centre for Suicide Research, University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare Trust, UK Click here to visit the website of the University of Oxford Centre for Suicide ResearchContributors:
Esben Agerbo, National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Louis Appleby, Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester, UK
Simon Armson,
Thorsten Barnhofer, Centre for Suicide Research,
Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, UK
Yeates Conwell, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, USA
Catherine Crane, Centre for Suicide Research, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, UK
Paul Duberstein, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, USA
Danielle Duggan, Centre for Suicide Research, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, UK
Robert D Goldney, The Adelaide Clinic, Gilberton SA, Australia
Onja Grad, University Psychiatric Hospital, Ljubljana, Slovenia
David Gunnell, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
Keith Hawton, Centre for Suicide
Research, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, UK
Kay Jamison, Washington DC, USA
Rachel Jenkins, WHO Collaborating Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Navneet Kapur,
Andrej Marusic, Institute of Public Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Peter McGuffin, SGDP Research Centre Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Lars Mehlum, Suicide and Prevention Research Unit, University of Oslo, Norway
Preben Bo Mortensen, National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Fiona O'May, Dept of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, UK
Jo Paton, Safer Custody Group, HM Prison Service, London, UK
Stephen
Pavis, Information and Statistics Division, Common Services Agency, NHS Scotland
Stephen Platt, Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
Ping Qin, National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Ingeborg Rossow, National Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research, Oslo, Norway
Michael Sharpe, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, UK
Nicola Swinson,
Kees van Heeringen, Dept of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Gent, Belgium
Herman M van Praag, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands
Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Kotarpuram, Chennai, India
Kathryn Williams
J Mark G Williams, Dept of
Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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"...an accessible book that will appeal to those working in the field and those with a more casual interest...it is a useful text with important ethical, societal and psychiatric messages." - British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 190 "This is an excellent review of the important field of suicide and its prevention...It is a comprehensive account of a difficult multidisciplinary area, and the book indicates how these different people can cooperate in the general welfare of a group of disadvataged people, by no means entirely hopeless" - BMA Medical Book Competition 2006
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1: Keith Hawton: Introduction and overview
2: Ping Qin, Esben Agerbo & Preben Bo Mortensen: Factors contributing to suicide: the epidemiological evidence from large-scale registers
3: David Gunnell: Time trends and geographic differences in suicide: implications for prevention
4: Stephen Platt, Stephen Pavis, Michael Sharpe & Fiona O'May: Contextual effects in suicidal behaviour: evidence, exploration and implications
5: J Mark G Williams, Catherine Crane, Thorsten Barnhofer & Danielle Duggan: Psychology and suicidal behaviour: elaborating the entrapment model
6: Kees van Heeringen: Psychobiological approaches to the predisposition to suicidal behaviour: implications for treatment and prevention
7: Andrej Marusic & Peter McGuffin: Interplay of genes and environment as contributory factors to suicidal behaviour
8: Lars Mehlum: Traumatic stress and suicidal behaviour: an important target for treatment and prevention
9: Louis Appleby, Nicola Swinson & Navneet Kapur: Making mental health services safer
10: Robert D Goldney: Risk factors for suicidal behaviour: translating knowledge into practice
11: Kay Jamison & Keith Hawton: The burden of suicide and clinical suggestions for prevention
12: Keith Hawton: Psychosocial treatments following attempted suicide: evidence to inform clinical practice
13: Yeates Conwell & Paul Duberstein: Suicide in older people: determinants of risk and opportunities for prevention
14: Herman M van Praag: The resistance of suicide: why have antidepressants not reduced suicide rates?
15: Ingeborg Rossow: Substance use and suicidal behaviour: associations and implications for prevention
16: Keith Hawton: Restriction of access to methods of suicide as a means of suicide prevention
17: Keith Hawton & Kathryn Williams: Media influences on suicidal behaviour: evidence and prevention
18: Jo Paton & Rachel Jenkins: Suicide and suicide attempts in prisons
19: Lakshmi Vijayakumar & Simon Armson: Volunteer perspectives on suicide prevention
20: Onja Grad: Suicide survivorship: an unknown journey from loss to gain - from individual to global perspectives
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