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Suicide: An Essential Guide for Helping Professionals and Educators
Darcy Haag Granello, The Ohio State University
Paul F. Granello, The Ohio State University

ISBN-10: 0205386733
ISBN-13: 9780205386734

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 352 pp
Published: 08/30/2006

Suggested retail price: $35.95
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A useful and much-needed resource for graduate students in all the helping professions and education as well as practicing clinicians and K-12 educators, this new book encapsulates the suicide literature into readable chunks, offering both practical skills and research based information.

 

The book provides a comprehensive approach to many essential topics related to suicide and yet maintains a practical readability that busy students and professionals will appreciate. Well organized chapters explain the relationship of suicide to specific topics, including a thorough discussion of at-risk clients and multiple aspects of working with suicidal clients (history, assessment, crises management, special populations, prevention, and postvention).  Through use of this material, helping professionals will gain insights, practical skills, and therapeutic confidence into their work with the suicidal individual.  The book is well organized for the instructor to use as either the basis for an entire course or as supplementary text in many courses, such as diagnosis, practicum, internship, abnormal pathology, trauma, and crises management.  Readers will appreciate the practical tips, lists, resources, and case studies available in the text.

 

  • Use of case examples and studies throughout.
  • A full chapter on assessment provides solid practical information on a skill not often taught to pre-service helpers.
  • Clinicians and students can find and use Internet and published resources throughout.

Preface xi

SECTION ONE � Suicide: An Overview

1 Introduction 1

An Overview of Suicide 2

Problems with Classification 3

Suicide and Suicidal Behavior 5

Understanding Suicide 8

The Role of the Mental Health Professional 13

 

2 Historical and Theoretical Foundations 16

Historical Foundations of Suicide 16

Theoretical Foundations of Suicide 21

 

SECTION TWO � Populations at Risk

3 Suicide and Suicide Risk Factors in Children

and Adolescents 32

Suicide Risk in Children 33

Suicide Risk in Adolescents 39

 

4 Suicide and Suicide Risk Factors in Young and Middle-Aged

Adult Populations 52

Adult Developmental Characteristics and Suicide 53

Suicide Risk in Young and Middle Adulthood 55

Risk Factors in Adults 59

College Students as a Special Group of Young Adults 68

 

5 Suicide and Suicidal Risk Factors in the Elderly

Population 73

Developmental Considerations of Older Adult Suicide Risk 77

Specific Risk Factors in Older People 78

Methods, Warning Signs, and Triggering Conditions

for Suicide in the Elderly Population 83

 

6 Suicide and Suicide Risk in Multicultural

Populations 85

Suicide Risk in Hispanic Americans 86

Suicide Risk in African Americans 91

Suicide Risk in Native Americans 97

Suicide Risk in Asian Americans 100

 

7 Suicide and Suicide Risk Factors in People with Mental

and Emotional Disorders 106

Mood Disorders 109

Schizophrenia 113

Anxiety Disorders 115

Personality Disorders 116

Alcohol and Substance Abuse Disorders 117

 

8 Suicide and Suicide Risk Factors in People

with Physical Illnesses 120

Medical Illnesses and Conditions That Increase Suicide Risk 122

Medical Illnesses and Conditions with Uncertain Suicide Risk 126

 

9 Suicide and Suicide Risk Factors in Other

High-Risk Populations 132

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Transgendered People 134

Prisoners and Incarcerated Populations 137

Law Enforcement Populations 141

Military and Veteran Populations 142

Suicide and Suicide Risk in the Health Care Professions 145

 

SECTION THREE � Issues in Prevention, Assessment,

and Intervention

 

10 Suicide Prevention 148

Suicide Prevention in Schools 151

Developing a ComprehensiveSchool Suicide Prevention Program 157

Suicide Prevention in Community Settings 172

Working with the Mass Media: Prevention and Postvention 177

11 Suicide Risk Assessment 180

The Components of Suicide Risk Assessment 181

The Role of Risk Factors and Warning Signs in Suicide Risk Assessment 192

Risk Assessment Instruments 192

 

12 Interventions with Suicidal and At-Risk Children

and Adolescents 204

Suicidal Thoughts, Ideation, and Threats 205

Suicidal Behaviors and Attempts 209

Responding to Threats and Attempts: Treatment Options

for Suicidal Children and Adolescents 210

Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology 219

 

13 Interventions with Suicidal and At-Risk Adults 225

The Nature of Crises and Emergencies 227

Goals of Intervention 229

Levels of Risk 237

Treatment Issues for Suicidal Adults 245

14 Legal and Ethical Issues in Suicide 255

Ethics, Values, and Suicide 255

Legal Issues and Suicide 262

Risk Management 269

 

SECTION FOUR � The Aftermath of Suicide

 

15 Suicide Survivors 276

Coping with Suicide and Its Fallout 277

Suicide Survivor Research 278

Special Focus: Child Survivors 281

A Proposed Model for Family Interventions Following a Suicide:

The Family Debriefing Model 286

Client Suicide: Clinician as Survivor 287

 

Appendixes 292

A. Resource List of Suicide Risk Assessments 292

B. Suicide Organizations and Web Sites 299

C. Web Sites for and about Suicide Survivors 303

D. Suicide Helplines and Hotlines 304

References 305

Index 337

 

“I found this to be a most helpful and well-written text. … It is rich with material that can be of help in understanding and treating suicide and its many victims.”

~Frieda Farfour Brown, Ph.D., Gardner Web University

 

“[This book] will be recommended because of the coverage of the entire life span in one book and because of the specific coverage of often little known facts about each age group and population at-risk. The text will be a very good resource for students to compare and contrast different population and risk-groups.”

 ~ Diane Mirabito, DSW, New York University, Ehrenkranz School of Social Work

Suicide: An Essential Guide for Helping Professionals and Educators

 

Darcy Haag Granello, The Ohio State University
Paul F. Granello, The Ohio State University

ISBN: 0205386733

 

Suicide: An Essential Guide for Helping Professionals and Educators encapsulates literature on suicide into digestible chunks, offering both research-based information and practical skills. This new book is an ideal resource for graduate students in all helping professions and in education, as well as for practicing clinicians and K-12 educators.

 

“I found this to be a most helpful and well-written text. … It is rich with material that can be of help in understanding and treating suicide and its many victims.”

-Frieda Farfour Brown, Ph.D., Gardner Webb University

 

“[This book] will be recommended because of the coverage of the entire life span in one book and because of the specific coverage of often little known facts about each age group and population at-risk. The text will be a very good resource for students to compare and contrast different populations and risk-groups.”

 —Diane Mirabito, DSW, New York University, Ehrenkranz School of Social Work

 

Features Include:

  • Use of case examples and studies throughout.
  • A full chapter on assessment provides solid practical information on a skill not often taught to pre-service helpers.
  • Clinicians and students can find and use Internet and published resources throughout.

 

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