Understanding Suicidal Behaviour The Suicidal Process Approach to Research, Treatment and Prevention

by van Heeringen, Kees

• ISBN13: 9780471988038
• ISBN10: 0471988030
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-08
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

NEW IN PAPERBACK How can suicide be prevented and treated by mental health professionals? Understanding Suicidal Behaviour offers a clinical guide to the assessment, treatment and prevention of suicidal behaviour, from a new and useful theoretical perspective. The book presents the arguments and research evidence that suicidal behaviour is not just a response to current emotional crises, but is influenced by persistent characteristics that can be defined in psychological and biological terms. The approach in this book accommodates and goes beyond previous aspects thought important in suicidal behaviour, like mental disorder and social stress. The key concept of vulnerability may provide new approaches to treatment to supplement the existing treatments, which are of limited efficacy. Challenges professionals to understand suicidal behaviour from a basis of vulnerability, personality, and development - and as a process that includes social, biological, and psychological interactions Offers ways in predicting suicidal behaviour and indicating earlier, effective interventions Cutting edge discussion of implications for the study and treatment of suicidal behaviour, by some of the leading authorities in the field "...warrants a place on the shelf of any suicidologist, clinician or researcher with an interest in suicidal behaviour...the editor and contributors ought to be commended on a comprehensive and lucid volume." British Journal of Clinical Psychology

Author Biography

Kees van Heeringen, University Hospital Gent, Belgium.

Table of Contents

About the Editor	vii
List of Contributors	viii
Introduction	xi
PART I THE SUICIDAL PROCESS: AN OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH FINDINGS
The Suicidal Process and Related Concepts	3	(12)
Kees van Heeringen
Pathways to Suicide: The Epidemiology of the Suicidal Process	15	(25)
Ad J.F.M. Kerkhof
Ella Arensman
Stress and Suicidal Behaviour	40	(14)
Lil Traskman-Bendz
Asa Westrin
About the Biological Interface between Psychotraumatic Experiences and Affective Dysregulation	54	(22)
Herman M. van Praag
Psychological Aspects of the Suicidal Process	76	(18)
J. Mark G. Williams
Leslie R. Pollock
Personality Constellations and Suicidal Behaviour	94	(27)
Alan Apter
Hadas Ofek
Ethology and the Suicidal Process	121	(15)
Robert D. Goldney
Towards a Psychobiological Model of the Suicidal Process	136	(27)
Kees van Heeringen
PART II THE SUICIDAL PROCESS APPROACH: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE UNDERSTANDING AND TREATMENT OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR
Suicide Risk Assessment and the Suicidal-Process Approach	163	(19)
Lawrence Amsel
J. John Mann
The Suicidal Process and Society	182	(30)
Unni Bille-Brahe
The Treatment of Suicidal Behaviour in the Context of the Suicidal Process	212	(18)
Keith Hawton
Suicide as Goal-directed Action	230	(25)
Konrad Michel
Ladislav Valach
Psychopharmacological Approaches to the Suicidal Process	255	(18)
Kevin M. Malone
Maeve Moran
Psychotherapeutic Implications of the Suicidal Process Approach	273	(15)
Ineke Kienhorst
Kees van Heeringen
The Process Approach to Suicidal Behaviour: Future Directions in Research, Treatment and Prevention	288	(19)
Kees van Heeringen
Author Index	307	(8)
Subject Index	315