Die Pubertät ist eine herausfordernde Lebensphase für Kinder und deren Eltern. Enttäuschungen, Verluste, Einsamkeit, Mobbing aber auch psychische Erkrankungen und vieles mehr können so quälend werden, dass alles bisher Gelernte und Erprobte als wirkungslos empfunden wird. In ein…
Suicide - The Ultimate Rejection? is an interdisciplinary text based on Colin Pritchard's first-hand experience both as a practising psychiatric social worker and social researcher. It provides an analysis of current research on suicide, exploring possible 'causes' and how best …
Critical Suicidology introduces alternative approaches to suicide prevention, approaches that don't pathologize inequality and distress but rather take into consideration the social, political, and cultural contexts of people's lives.
Globally, suicides account for a significant number of premature deaths every year. Traditional approaches to research and prevention are not working for everyone, but why is this? And what can be done about it? In Critical Suicidology, a team of international scholars, practiti…
Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and his…
Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and his…
"Half in Love With Death: Managing the Chronically Suicidal Patient is a resource for clinicians who treat chronically suicidal patients, as it fills a gap in the existing literature and provides enlightened guidelines that stem from a large body of research in the field."--Jack…
"Half in Love With Death: Managing the Chronically Suicidal Patient is a resource for clinicians who treat chronically suicidal patients, as it fills a gap in the existing literature and provides enlightened guidelines that stem from a large body of research in the field."--Jack…
Suicide prevention: a holistic approach
Suicide Prevention: A Holistic Approach contains the selected and edited papers that were presented during the congress Suicide, Disease, Disadvantage, A Holistic Approach, organized by the International Association for Suicide Prevention, which was held in June 1995, in Venice.…