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Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention

  • Discusses many neglected aspects of suicide prevention
  • Provide international perspectives
  • Written by opinion leaders dedicated to raising awareness of the topic

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Table of contents (81 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
  2. Models of Suicide

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Neurobiological Approach to the Study of Suicide

      • Kees van Heeringen
      Pages 13-20
    3. The Journey Back from Suicide

      • Sylvia Huitson
      Pages 21-29
    4. Suicide as Syndemic

      • Chris Caulkins
      Pages 31-44
    5. Protective Factors in Suicidal Behavior

      • Gerard Hutchinson
      Pages 77-84
    6. Unmet Needs in the Management of Suicide Risk

      • Maurizio Pompili
      Pages 85-96
    7. Reasons for Living as a Strength-Based Approach to Suicide Prevention

      • Maryke Van Zyl, Priscilla Phan, Connie Fee, Sophal Khiv
      Pages 97-117
    8. Prevention-Oriented Risk Formulation

      • Anthony R. Pisani, Daniel C. Murrie, Morton Silverman, Kathryn Turner
      Pages 119-149
    9. The Narrative Crisis Model of Suicide: A Novel and Empirically Grounded Diathesis-Stress Model of Suicide

      • Sarah Bloch-Elkouby, Nadia Yanez, Lakshmi Chennapragada, Jenelle Richards, Lisa Cohen, Igor Galynker
      Pages 151-166
    10. How to Ask About Suicide

      • Alan L. Berman
      Pages 183-200
    11. Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality Approach

      • David A. Jobes, Irene Zhang, Tia Tyndal
      Pages 201-217
    12. Differentiation of Suicidal Behavior in Clinical Practice

      • Remco F. P. de Winter, Connie Meijer, Nienke Kool, Marieke H. de Groot
      Pages 219-236
    13. Suicide and Trauma

      • Katie J. E. Carlson, Marissa N. Eusebio, Shaune-Ru Wang, Lisa M. Brown
      Pages 269-281
    14. Suicide and Psychotic Depression

      • Bianca Eloi, Kevin Rodriguez, Erin O’Connell, Alan F. Schatzberg, Bruce Bongar
      Pages 283-294
    15. Indirect Self-Destructive Behaviors

      • Kyle Rosales, Erik Wendel Rice, Lisa M. Brown
      Pages 295-311

About this book

This book explores suicide prevention perspectives from around the world, considering both professionals’ points of view as well as first-person accounts from suicidal individuals.

Scholars around the globe have puzzled over what makes a person suicidal and what is in the minds of those individuals who die by suicide. Most often the focus is not on the motives for suicide, nor on the phenomenology of this act, but on what is found from small cohorts of suicidal individuals.

This book offers a tentative synthesis of a complex phenomenon, and sheds some light on models of suicide that are less frequently encountered in the literature.

Written by international experts, it makes a valuable contribution to the field of suicidology that appeals to a wide readership, from mental health professionals to researchers in suicidology and students.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Sensory Organs, Suicide Prevention Center, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Maurizio Pompili

About the editor

Maurizio Pompili, M.D, Ph.D. is Full Professor and Chair of Psychiatry as part of the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he received his M.D. degree, where he trained in Psychiatry (both summa cum laude). He is the Director of the Residency Training Program in Psychiatry of his faculty.

He is the Director of the University Psychiatric Clinic and the Director of the Suicide Prevention Center at Sant’Andrea Hospital in Rome.

He is the President of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Technique degree program at the Sapienza University of Rome.

He has a doctoral degree in Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences. He was also part of the Community at McLean Hospital – Harvard Medical School, the USA, where he received a psychiatry fellowship.

He is the recipient of the American Association of Suicidology’s 2008 Shneidman Award for “Outstanding contributions in research in suicidology.”

Apart from being theItalian Representative of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) for many years, he has been afterward one of the Vice-Presidents of this association. He is now Co-Chair of the IASP Special Interest Group in Risk Resilience and Reasons for Living. At present, he is a member of the IASP Executive Committed in the role of treasures. He is also a member of the International Academy for Suicide Research and the American Association of Suicidology. He is also President of the Suicidology Section of the Italian Psychiatric Society;

He has published more than 550 papers on suicide, bipolar disorders, and other psychiatric perspectives, including original research articles, book chapters, and editorials. He co-edited ten international books on suicide;

He ranks in the top 10 suicide authors of 500 world suicide authors listed in the ISI Web of Science (this is in terms of the number of focused works on the topic of suicide that are indexed in the ISI Web ofScience).

 He has been recognized by Expertscape as an expert in suicide, ranking 1st worldwide.

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