Suicide category: 248 books
Silent Grief
Living in the Wake of Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
'This book gives insights into the pain and suffering involved when people are grieving for someone who has committed suicide, but it also offers hope without diminishing the significance of the suffering involved. As such, it has a lot to offer, and is therefore to be welcomed.' - Well-Being 'This...
Cultural Diversity and Suicide
Ethnic, Religious, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This book adds a vital and overlooked dimension-diversity-to suicide assessments and interventions
The literature on the relationship between culture and suicide has historically been widely scattered and often difficult to find. Cultural Diversity and Suicide summarizes that widespread literature...
by Victor Kiethman
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Over one million people commit suicide each year. The World Health Organization estimates it is the thirteenth-leading cause of death worldwide and the National Safety Council rates it sixth in America. It is a leading cause of death among teenagers and adults under 35 years of age. Rates of suicide...
Suicide Explained
A Neuropsychological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Finally a book that explains suicide, a must read for the survivors of suicide who want to understand why suicide happens and it also should prove extremely helpful for anyone suffering mental disorders. The material in this book should be incorporated into the curriculum of psychology and psychiatry...
Cognitive Behavioural Prevention of Suicide in Psychosis
A treatment manual
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This practical and informative text lays out the product of a number of years of clinical research into suicide behaviour and its prevention. While the focus is on non-affective psychosis and the schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, the mechanisms underlying suicide behaviour in this group may well underlie...
by Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Terrorist organizations have been able to market mass murder under hysteria's banner of alleged martyrdom. But when it comes to understanding Islamic suicide terrorism in particular, there is much more to it than martyrdom. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Kobrin dismantles the psychological dynamics...
by Emile Durkheim
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate...
Waking Up, Alive
The Descent, the Suicide Attempt... And, the Return to Life!
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Waking Up, Alive addresses the penetrating hopelessness—the loss of faith—that leads one to suicide. Pain and suffering visit us all. No one is exempt. No one has earned a special status that enables him or her to live without heartache or anxiety, sadness or fear. Sometimes these emotions...
A Thousand Moments of Solitude
(A Personal Encounter with Suicide)
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
On November 12, 2002, at the age of twenty-two, my son Mitchell committed suicide. His sudden and unexpected death sent me reeling down a path I needed to travel if I ever wanted to escape the forest of grief and loss in which I found myself. This book recounts my journey to come to terms with the...
Grieving a Suicide
A Loved One's Search for Comfort, Answers & Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
A 2003 Finalist in the United Kingdom Christian Book Awards! Every seventeen minutes, someone in the United States dies by suicide. It is one of the most serious public health crises of modern times, claiming over one million lives worldwide every year. Those who have lost a loved one to suicide experience...
The Prevention of Suicide in Prison
Cognitive behavioural approaches
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Suicide is considered to be the leading cause of preventable death in prisons. While there is increasingly expansive literature examining the various risk factors associated with a likelihood of eventual prison suicide, so far this has struggled to lead to successful prevention programmes. An alternative...
by B. A. (Beverly) Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
We all know this is a dangerous world; dangers from outside our country, dangers from within our country, and dangers from within our community. But the most tragic and often the biggest danger to our loved ones, comes from themselves. Many people are oblivious to this fact, until they have a suicidal...
Grieving a Suicide
A Loved One's Search for Comfort, Answers, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
• A 2003 Finalist in the United Kingdom Christian Book Awards
"Albert," the neighbor said, "your mom needs you to come home." That's how it began for Albert Hsu when his father died. Anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide experiences tremendous shock and trauma. What follows...
How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me, Revised Edition
One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
NOW WITH A NEW CHAPTER AND AN UPDATED RESOURCES SECTION
Suicide has touched the lives of nearly half of all Americans, yet it is rarely talked about openly. In her highly acclaimed book, Susan Blauner—a survivor of multiple suicide attempts—offers guidance and hope for those contemplating...