Suicide Science

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. New Life in Suicide Science

   • Thomas Joiner

   Pages 1-7

3. Decades of Suicide Research: Wherefrom and Whereto?

   • David Lester

   Pages 9-16

4. The Hopelessness Theory of Suicidality

   • Lyn Y. Abramson, Lauren B. Alloy, Michael E. Hogan, Wayne G. Whitehouse, Brandon E. Gibb, Benjamin L. Hankin et al.

   Pages 17-32

5. Escaping the Self Consumes Regulatory Resources: A Self-Regulatory Model of Suicide

   • Kathleen D. Vohs, Roy F. Baumeister

   Pages 33-41

6. Toward an Integrated Theory of Suicidal Behaviors: Merging the Hopelessness, Self-Discrepancy, and Escape Theories

   • Michelle M. Cornette, Lyn Y. Abramson, Anna M. Bardone

   Pages 43-66

7. Shame, Guilt, and Suicide

   • Mark E. Hastings, Lisa M. Northman, June P. Tangney

   Pages 67-79

8. Mood Regulation and Suicidal Behavior

   • Salvatore J. Catanzaro

   Pages 81-103

9. Desperate Acts for Desperate Times: Looming Vulnerability and Suicide

   • John H. Riskind, Daniel G. Long, Nathan L. Williams, Jennifer C. White

   Pages 105-115

10. Suicide and Panic Disorder. Integration of the Literature and New Findings

    • Norman B. Schmidt, Kelly Woolaway-Bickel, Mark Bates

    Pages 117-136

11. Suicide Risk in Externalizing Syndromes: Temperamental and Neurobiological Underpinnings

    • Edelyn Verona, Christopher J. Patrick

    Pages 137-173

12. Studying Interpersonal Factors in Suicide: Perspectives from Depression Research

    • Joanne Davila, Shannon E. Daley

    Pages 175-200

13. Gender, Social Roles, and Suicidal Ideation and Attempts in a General Population Sample

    • Natalie Sachs-Ericsson

    Pages 201-220

14. Suicidal Behavior in African American Women with a History of Childhood Maltreatment

    • Sharon Young, Heather Twomey, Nadine J. Kaslow

    Pages 221-240

15. Issues in the Evaluation of Youth Suicide Prevention Initiatives

    • John Kalafat

    Pages 241-249

16. Recognition and Treatment of Suicidal Youth: Broadening Our Research Agenda

    • Cheryl A. King, Michele Knox

    Pages 251-269

17. A Conceptual Scheme for Assessing Treatment Outcome in Suicidality

    • M. David Rudd

    Pages 271-278

Suicide kills and maims victims; traumatizes loved ones; preoccupies clinicians; and costs health care and emergency agencies fortunes. It should therefore demand a wealth of theoretical, scientific, and fiduciary attention. But in many ways it has Why? Although the answer to this question is multi-faceted, this volume not. supposes that one answer to the question is a lack of elaborated and penetrating theoretical approaches. The authors of this volume were challenged to apply their considerable theoretical wherewithal to this state of affairs. They have risen to this challenge admirably, in that several ambitious ideas are presented and developed. Ifever a phenomenon should inspire humility, it is suicide, and the volume’s authors realize this. Although several far-reaching views are proposed, they are pitched as first approximations, with the primary goal of stimulating still more conceptual and empirical work. A pressing issue in suicide science is the topic of clinical interventions, and clinical approaches more generally. Here too, this volume contributes, covering such topics as therapeutics and prevention, comorbidity, special populations, and clinicalrisk factors.

• attention
• depression
• evaluation
• intervention
• prevention
• research
• suicide
• Syndrom
• syndromes
• Therapeut
• treatment
• women
• psychopharmacology

• Florida State University, USA

  Thomas Joiner

• Baylor University, USA

  M. David Rudd

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