Suicide category: 248 books
Night Falls Fast
Understanding Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen...
by Sandra Gould Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Suicide is something no one wants to talk about. The act conjures up everything that we fear. It requires that we look at our mortality.
Because we confuse happiness with contentment, we aim for something unobtainable by their very nature. When we view life through the eyes of the mentally...
The Understanding Your Suicide Grief Support Group Guide
Meeting Plans for Facilitators
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound loss, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to their grief. Using the metaphor of the wilderness, the book introduces...
by Robert Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Bridge deals most centrally with the question of suicide, issues of violence, and mental illness. In 2010 (the most recent year for which data are available), 38,364 suicides were reported in the U.S., making suicide the 10th leading cause of death for Americans (The Centers for Disease Control and...
by W.M. "Pepper" Turner
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
When you lose someone you love to suicide, nothing makes sense. After I lost my husband in 2006, I searched for answers, for reasons, for meaning and found nothing but a dark empty room out of which I had to find my own way. During that time I looked for simple truths in poetry - some dark, some angry,...
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy with People at Risk of Suicide
Working with People at Risk of Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Grounded in extensive research and clinical experience, this book describes how to adapt mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for participants who struggle with recurrent suicidal thoughts and impulses. Clinicians and mindfulness teachers are presented with a comprehensive framework for understanding...
Grief Diaries
Surviving Loss by Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
WINNER OF 3 LITERARY AWARDS
Marci lost her 20-year-old brother. Julie lost her 42-year-old husband. Bonnie lost her 16-year-old son. They all have three things in common: losing a loved one to suicide, facing a rollercoaster of overwhelming emotions, and embarking on a heartfelt journey seeking...
Understanding and Helping Suicidal Teens
Therapeutic Strategies For Parents & Teachers From A Trauma Therapist
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
How would you feel about having a discussion about suicide with your teenager?
Would you be afraid, nervous, or completely lost? If so, you're certainly not alone.
With suicide being the 2nd leading cause of teen death and with the advent of newer forms of social media like Whatsapp or GroupMe,...
Sorrows of a Century
Interpreting Suicide in New Zealand, 19002000
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Focusing on New Zealand’s comprehensive and accessible coroners’ records, John Weaver analyses some twelve thousand cases to determine the social and cultural factors that contribute to suicide rates. He examines the official investigations into sudden deaths, placing them within the context of major...
by Anna Unknown
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
It's something you never talk about. You really wish you could, but who would understand? People think it's a desperate cry for attention, so you hold it in and you keep it to yourself. It's your secret. They can't see the pain and loneliness that you so desperately long to escape....
by Julie Gray
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
My brother Peter killed himself on May 13th, 2010 sometime between noon and 5pm. My world lurched on its axis and will never recover.
There is nothing I can do to bring Peter back home to us, but I can tell you that if you are worried about a loved one or a friend, you need to intervene and...
Vivez jusqu'au bout !
Suicide, mode de non-emploi
Language: French
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Le suicide est encore tabou : soit on en parle comme d'une épidémie qui frapperait des individus irresponsables de leurs actes, soit on l'idéalise en le présentant comme le « choix de la dignité ». Deux approches aussi erronées l'une...
Is Heaven for Real
Suicide Driven by Faith
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
"A chilling exposé of youth suicide driven by faith." Tony Frost, Tribune
Child and teen suicide is no stranger to this author:
"I recall gazing at the stillness of my childhood friend in a coffin and the nun telling me that God had taken him back because he had been...
Suicide Postvention in the Department of Defense
Evidence, Policies and Procedures, and Perspectives of Loss Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
A review of the scientific evidence on suicide postvention (organizational responses to prevent additional suicides and help loss survivors cope), guidance for other types of organizations, and the perspectives of the family and friends of service members who have died by suicide provide insights...