Suicide : An Essential Guide for Helping Professionals and Educators

A useful and much-needed resource, this new book encapsulates the suicide literature into readable chunks, offering both practical skills and research based information.

The book provides a comprehensive approach to many essential topics related to suicide and yet maintains a practical readability that busy clinicians will appreciate. Well organized chapters explain the relationship of suicide to specific topics, including a thorough discussion of at-risk clients and multiple aspects of working with suicidal clients (history, assessment, crises management, special populations, prevention, and postvention).  Through use of this material, helping professionals will gain insights, practical skills, and therapeutic confidence into their work with the suicidal individual.  Readers will appreciate the practical tips, lists, resources, and case studies available throughout.

Features Include:

• Use of case examples and studies throughout.
• A full chapter on assessment provides solid practical information on a skill not often taught to pre-service helpers.
• Clinicians can find and use Internet and published resources throughout.

Suicide: An Essential Guide for Helping Professionals and Educators

Darcy Haag Granello, The Ohio State University
Paul F. Granello, The Ohio State University

ISBN: 0205386733

Suicide: An Essential Guide for Helping Professionals and Educators encapsulates literature on suicide into digestible chunks, offering both research-based information and practical skills. This new book is an ideal resource for graduate students in all helping professions and in education, as well as for practicing clinicians and K-12 educators.

“I found this to be a most helpful and well-written text. … It is rich with material that can be of help in understanding and treating suicide and its many victims.”

-Frieda Farfour Brown, Ph.D., Gardner Webb University

“[This book] will be recommended because of the coverage of the entire life span in one book and because of the specific coverage of often little known facts about each age group and population at-risk. The text will be a very good resource for students to compare and contrast different populations and risk-groups.”

 —Diane Mirabito, DSW, New York University, Ehrenkranz School of Social Work

Features Include:

• Use of case examples and studies throughout.
• A full chapter on assessment provides solid practical information on a skill not often taught to pre-service helpers.
• Clinicians and students can find and use Internet and published resources throughout.