Preventing Suicide - The Solution Focused Approach2e (Paperback, 2)

About the author vii

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xi

1 How to use this book 1

2 The book’s style and purpose 4

3 Defining suicide and selfi¿½]injury 24

4 Current service provision: risk assessment, management and medication 32

5 Other approaches to helping the suicidal 49

6 What is Solution Focused Brief Therapy? 70

7 Suicide encounters: the crucial first ten minutes 112

8 The solution focused approach in working with the suicidal 123

9 Case study: Reg and ‘the demons calling from the deep’ 152

10 Some more case vignettes 175

11 Connecting with people by Alys Cole-King 185

12 Working on the phone with the suicidal person 199

13 Blaming those who took their lives 208

14 International solution focused applications to suicide prevention 215

15 Zero suicide: should this be our goal? 245

16 Where do we go from here? 253

Appendix 1: Flow diagram for an episode of treatment 264

Appendix 2: Specialist solution focused training workshops 268

Appendix 3: Evidence base for solutioni¿½]focused working 270

References 278

Index 314