Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

A young woman is abandoned by her boyfriend, an older man retires and feels worthless and lonely, a young man learns that his wife is having an extramarital affair. They all see suicide as the only solution. Usually, after a suicide attempt, people are treated in a hospital, where professionals try to work out the underlying psychiatric illness. Ladislav Valach and Annette Reissfelder, however, argue that suicide is not an illness but an action. Since this understanding is based on a high regard for everyday accounts of one's own experiences, the suicidal persons are given the stage in this book. The textbook presents twelve different cases after a suicide attempt. In the analysis of the conversations, attention is paid to the theory of action in everyday life. By presenting the long-term, medium-term and short-term concerns of the patients or the actions in the stories, practitioners gain a detailed insight into the underlying causes of the suicidal act and its treatment. The authors Ladislav Valach, PhD, is a psychologist and psychotherapist (FSP). He has conducted research and worked for the Universities of Bern and Zurich as well as the Swiss Red Cross and the Bürgerspital Solothurn, focusing on suicide prevention, social and preventive medicine and trauma therapy. He has also worked as a psychotherapist for 20 years and is the author/co-author of numerous books and articles in professional journals. Annette Reissfelder studied economics, economic history and psychology. She has been working as a coach for personal development topics since 2000. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Action theory. --- Clinical psychology. --- Psychotherapy. --- Goal-directed action --- Goal-directed behavior --- Theory, Action --- Psychology --- Sociology --- Psychagogy --- Therapy (Psychotherapy) --- Mental illness --- Clinical sociology --- Mental health counseling --- Psychiatry --- Psychology, Applied --- Psychological tests --- Philosophy --- Treatment --- Suïcidi --- Aspectes psicològics --- Psicoteràpia --- Aspectes psicològics. --- Psicoteràpia.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This volume presents a comprehensive and practical approach to the treatment of suicide and NSSI for adolescents utilizing a mentalizing framework. The beginning of the text provides up-to-date information on the theory of a mentalizing therapy in order to ground the readers in the neuroscientific underpinnings of a mentalizing approach. Next chapters provide information on the fundamental building blocks of a mentalizing therapy at the individual and family level. These chapters provide step-by-step approaches in order to provide examples of the techniques involved in mentalizing treatment that can be employed to address suicidality and NSSI. The next chapter builds on these concepts as the reader learns about mentalizing failures involved in common co-morbidities in adolescents who are experiencing suicidality and/or employing NSSI. The next several chapters cover practical issues related to working within this patient population including the key concept of social systems and connections for both providers and adolescents, the ability of mentalizing theory and therapy to integrate with other effective therapies, how to approach sessions after a suicide attempt, resiliency for patient, family and the provider, along with important self-care for a therapist if a patient commits suicide. The final chapter brings all of the aforementioned elements together in order for the reader to conceptualize employing a mentalizing approach to adolescents and their families when suicide and NSSI concerns are a predominate focus of care. Illustrations of specific therapeutic approaches and a list of resources and guidelines where available are also included. Adolescent Suicide and Self-Injury is an excellent resource for all clinicians working with youths at risk for suicide and/or self-injury, including psychiatrists, psychologists, pediatricians, family medicine physicians, emergency medicine specialists, social workers, and all others.

Psychiatry. --- Clinical psychology. --- Pediatrics. --- General practice (Medicine). --- Clinical Psychology. --- General Practice / Family Medicine. --- Paediatrics --- Pediatric medicine --- Medicine --- Children --- Psychiatry --- Psychology, Applied --- Psychological tests --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- Mentalization Based Therapy. --- Self-mutilation in adolescence. --- Teenagers --- Suicidal behavior --- Treatment. --- Adolescents --- Teen-agers --- Teens --- Young adults (Teenagers) --- Youth --- Adolescent psychopathology --- Self-destructive behavior in adolescence --- MBT (Mentalization Based Therapy) --- Mentalization Based Treatment --- Psychotherapy --- Suïcidi --- Comportament autolesiu --- Psiquiatria de l'adolescència --- Psicoteràpia dels adolescents --- Psicoteràpia familiar --- Psicologia clínica --- Teràpia familiar --- Psicoteràpia de grup --- Psicoteràpia de la parella --- Teràpia familiar sistèmica --- Mediació familiar --- Psicoteràpia --- Psiquiatria dels adolescents --- Psiquiatria infantil --- Psicopatologia de l'adolescència --- Autoagressió --- Autolesions --- Dany a si mateix --- SIB (Trastorn del comportament) --- Mort voluntària --- Homicidi --- Morts violentes --- Conducta suïcida --- Suïcidi assistit --- Psiquiatria --- Intervenció psicològica --- Psicodiagnòstic --- Neuropsicologia clínica --- Psicologia mèdica

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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.

Suicidal behavior. --- Suicide --- Prevention. --- Risk factors. --- Risk factors in suicide --- Prevention of suicide --- Suicide prevention --- Attempted suicide --- Suicide, Attempted --- Suicide attempts --- Unsuccessful attempted suicide --- Unsuccessful suicide attempts --- Self-destructive behavior --- Parasuicide --- Psychiatry. --- Psychotherapy. --- Psychagogy --- Therapy (Psychotherapy) --- Mental illness --- Clinical sociology --- Mental health counseling --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Treatment --- Suïcidi --- Programes de prevenció --- Aspectes psicològics --- Factors de risc en les malalties --- Aspectes psicològics.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This volume is the continuation of the book Suicide in Modern Literature, edited by Josefa Ros Velasco. Considering the positive reception of this book, Ros Velasco launches the second part, entitled The Contemporary Writer and their Suicide. This time, leading representatives of various disciplines analyze the literary, philosophical, and biographical works of contemporary writers worldwide who attempted to commit suicide or achieved their goal, looking for covert and overt clues about their intentions in their writings. This book aims to continue shedding light on the social and structural causes that lead to suicide and on the suicidal mind, but also to show that people assiduous to writing usually reflect their intentions to commit suicide in their writings, to explain how these frequently veiled intentions can be revealed and interpreted, and to highlight the potential of artistic, philosophical, and autobiographical writing as a tool to detect suicidal ideation and prevent its consummation in vulnerable people. This book analyzes several case studies and their allusions to their contexts and the socio-structural and environmental violence and pressures they suffered, expressions of their will and agency, feelings of dislocation between the individual, reality, and existential alienation, and literary styles, writing techniques, and metaphorical language.

Suicide in literature. --- Psychology. --- Community psychology. --- Psychology, Pathological. --- Culture. --- Philosophy and social sciences. --- Literature. --- Behavioral Sciences and Psychology. --- Community Psychology. --- Psychopathology. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Philosophy of the Social Sciences. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Social sciences and philosophy --- Social sciences --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Abnormal psychology --- Diseases, Mental --- Mental diseases --- Mental disorders --- Pathological psychology --- Psychology, Abnormal --- Psychopathology --- Neurology --- Brain --- Criminal psychology --- Mental health --- Psychiatry --- Psychoanalysis --- Psychology, Applied --- Social psychology --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Philosophy --- Soul --- Social aspects --- Diseases --- Suïcidi --- Escriptura --- Programes de prevenció --- Psicologia comunitària