Alternatives to Suicide: Beyond Risk and Toward a Life Worth Living

Alternatives to Suicide presents new perspectives in understanding and preventing suicide. This new approach fosters resilience and a desire for life to complement risk-focused interventions. The collaborative and compassionate treatment approach engages clients in discussion about their lives, helping clients and therapists better understand the interplay of risk and protective factors relating to suicidal behavior. The book outlines emerging technologies and advances in data-analytic sophistication using real-time monitoring of suicide dynamics, and how these are ushering the field of suicide research and prevention into a new and exciting era. The book equips clinicians and researchers to improve treatment outcomes for those contemplating suicide. Calls for a life-focused approach to understanding suicide Explores what attenuates the transition from thinking about suicide to attempting it Covers cross-cultural perspectives and the voices of those with lived experience Offers insights from epigenetics to ethics Discusses emerging technologies for suicide research and prevention INDICE: Section 1: Time for a Paradigm Shift 1. Suicide is About Life 2. The Implicit Suicidal Mind Clings to Life 3. Zest for Life: An Antidote to Suicide? Section 2: To Be or Not To Be 4. The Temporal Dynamics of the Wish to Live and the Wish to Die Among Suicidal Individuals 5. Daily Monitoring of the Wish to Live and the Wish to Die with Suicidal Inpatients 6. Alternatives to Suicide: A Nonlinear Dynamic Perspective 7. Connectedness and Suicide Section 3: Through the Lens of the Suicidal Person 8. Collaborative Movement from Preventing Suicide to Recovering Desire to Live 9. The Alternatives to Suicide Approach: A Decade of Lessons Learned 10. Psychological Resilience to Suicidal Experiences 11. Textual Analysis of Suicide Notes: How a New Approach Could Yield Fresh insights? Section 4: Suicide and a Life Worth Living from Indigenous and Refugee Perspectives 12. Self-determination and Strengths-Based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention: An Emerging Evidence-Based Approach 13. Refugees and Suicide: When the Quest for a Better Life Becomes Thwarted Section 5: Epigenetics of Suicidal Behaviors 14. Epigenetics of Suicidal Behaviors

• ISBN: 978-0-12-814297-4
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés