Suicide and Psychological Pain: Prevention That Works

This is an excellent book for therapists and health professionals who encounter at risk clients/patients. It teaches compassion based thinking in different challenging situations.

A bit of a casual book on such a serious topic, but don't let that fool you. Topic coverage is excellent with lots of good stories, and he really lays out the landscape of how to thoroughly assess suicidal risk, along with pointing out that, when someone is keeping it to themselves and showing no clues, it can't be detected. Mentions lots of tests in very rapid fashion without going into psychometrics and such. But his point is, that's not the way to assess it, exclusively. There's got to be a thorough interview by a highly skilled clinician. Easily worth the money!

This is such an informative book regarding suicide. It is very well written and kept me engaged.

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A very good, useful bookThe author makes numerous interesting points such as the fact that depression does not cause suicide but rather is correlational and how, more specifically, hopelessness is causal. I liked his references to Edwin Shneidman, but he made these references excessively. He repeats what I consider to be theoretically interesting but not particularly clinically pragmatic, and that is the analogy of respondent and operant conditioning to the purpose orientation of the suicidal person. I liked his inclusion of Prochaska et al's theoretical stages of change and his integration of a case study with this orientation. If I learned something of significant value it was the fact that it is critically important to respectfully keep the suicidal person talking, the essence of relationship, and how that process intrinsically builds hope. Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone doing clinical work with suicidal individuals.

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Very well written. A good reference book for working with clients.