Preventing Suicide : The Solution Focused Approach.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the author -- Foreword -- Endnote -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 How to use this book -- Chapter 2 The book's style and purpose -- The book - in a nutshell -- The book's style -- Reasons for writing -- An approach which is effective -- A shortage in the literature of effective brief therapy treatments for suicidal clients -- Personal involvement in the territory -- A How-to-do book -- Practical guide -- Help with 'the jitters' -- Relationship is key -- The search for an approach that works -- Prevention in the form of health promotion -- Prevention in the form of effective interventions -- Which treatments are effective? -- Financial considerations -- UK health of nation and our healthier nation targets -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) -- Contact with health professionals -- Feelings of isolation and being ignored -- Assessments -- Chapter 3 Defining suicide and self-injury -- Definitions and clarification of terms -- First, what do we mean by suicide? -- How should we define treatment? -- Deliberate self-injury (previously called self-harm) -- Political suicide and suicide terrorism -- Political suicide -- Suicide bombers -- Chapter 4 Current service provision: Risk assessment, management and medication -- Introduction -- Risk assessment -- Risk factors -- Assessing the level of intent -- Risk management -- Medication -- The medical model -- Chapter 5 Other approaches to helping the suicidal -- Introduction -- The models -- Person-centred counselling -- Cognitive behavioural therapy -- Human givens -- Dialectic behaviour therapy -- Rational emotive behaviour therapy -- Transactional analysis -- Existential logotherapy -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter 6 What is Solution Focused Brief Therapy? -- Foundations -- The solution focused theory of change.

Changing the doing or the viewing of the problem -- Actions, thinking, and feelings -- The approach -- Basic assumptions, principles, and beliefs -- Tools and techniques -- Summary -- SFBT - some common myths -- Chapter 7 Suicide encounters: The crucial first ten minutes -- The pre-session task -- Client 'radar' -- Non-verbal communication -- How to start the session -- The building of rapport, trust, and a strong therapeutic alliance -- Trust -- Acknowledgement, validation, and normalisation -- Hope, optimism, and confidence -- Hope -- Optimism -- Confidence -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 The solution focused approach in working with the suicidal -- Introduction -- The specialised and adapted solution focused tools and techniques -- Deep empathy and quick rapport -- Assessing for incongruence -- Questions to elicit suicidal ideation -- Questions to ask, once suicidal ideation has been established -- The questions -- Normalisation -- Hope -- Empowerment -- The miracle question (adapted) -- Wise old you -- Worst case (graveside or crematorium) scenario -- Deathbed scenario -- The solution focused feelings tank -- The very, very small step -- Key points to cover -- When someone expresses suicidal ideas, key points to cover: -- Summary -- Chapter 9 Case study: Reg and 'the demons calling from the deep' -- Presenting issue -- Session 1 -- Session 2 -- Dual awareness exercise for dealing with flashbacks -- Session 3 -- Session 4 -- Goals -- Intervention -- Session 5 -- The first letter -- Session 6 -- Intervention -- Intervention -- Session 7 -- Session 8 -- Chapter 10 Some more case vignettes -- Case study 1 - 'Determined to do it' -- Barry (28) -- Case study 2 - 'Punchy and desperate' -- Peter (30) -- Case study 3 - 'Despairing over lost love' -- Alex (20) -- Case study 4 - 'Tired, hard-working carer' -- Josephine (49).

Case study 5 - 'Everything's busted' -- Simon (20) -- Summary -- Chapter 11 Connecting with people -- Challenge of suicide -- Role of non‐mental health specialists -- Lack of knowledge -- Suicide mitigation -- Importance of compassion -- Importance of practitioner attitudes -- The importance of a thorough assessment -- Resources for people at risk of suicide -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 12 Working on the phone with the suicidal person -- Use of silence -- The key qualities -- Verbal vs non-verbal communication -- Solution focused telephone counselling -- Information giving -- Reassuring statements -- The (adapted) miracle question -- Finishing a call with a suicidal caller -- Chapter 13 Blaming those who took their lives -- How do we blame those who takes their lives? -- Suicide prevention researchers' responsibilities -- Families -- Chapter 14 International solution focused applications to suicide prevention -- Introduction -- Canada -- Religious and cultural considerations -- Suicide prevention strategies at national level -- Suicide prevention and solution focused practice -- Australia -- Suicide prevention strategies at national level -- Suicide prevention and solution focused practice -- Finland -- Religious and cultural considerations -- Suicide prevention strategies at national level -- Suicide prevention and solution focused practice -- Singapore -- Religious and cultural considerations -- Suicide prevention strategies at national level -- Suicide prevention and solution focused practice -- Denmark -- Religious and cultural considerations -- Suicide prevention and solution focused practice -- Ireland -- Religious and cultural considerations -- Suicide prevention strategies at national level -- Suicide prevention and solution focused practice -- Japan -- Religious and cultural considerations.

Suicide prevention strategies at the national level -- Suicide prevention and solution focused practice -- Poland -- Religious and cultural considerations -- Suicide prevention and solution focused practice -- The Russian Federation -- Suicide prevention strategies at national level -- Suicide prevention and solution focused practice -- Religious and cultural considerations -- The Philippines -- Suicide prevention strategies at national level -- Religious and cultural considerations -- Suicide prevention and solution focused practice -- The United States -- Suicide prevention strategies at national level -- Suicide prevention and solution focused practice -- Other countries - in brief -- Hong Kong -- Belgium -- Sweden -- China -- Spain -- Chapter 15 Zero suicide: Should this be our goal? -- Psychotropic medication -- Is zero zuicide achievable? -- The drive to zero suicide in Northern Ireland -- UK zero suicide discussions -- The Zero Suicide Movement and the Zero Suicide Ambition -- Sweden's 'vision‐zero' approach -- Detroit service -- Coroners' courts -- The future -- Chapter 16 Where do we go from here? -- Access points for the suicidal -- Quality of services -- Better training -- A concentration on 'depression'? -- National programmes and targets -- Problem focus vs. solution focus -- The evidence‐base -- Towards a manualised approach to solution focused suicide prevention -- Final thoughts -- Appendix 1 Flow diagram for an episode of treatment -- Appendix 2 Specialist solution focused training workshops -- Appendix 3 Evidence base for solution‐focused working -- Solution-focused therapy evaluation list - 15 June 2016 update -- Meta-analyses (a few listed studies here, only) -- Systematic reviews (a few listed studies here, only) -- Published follow-up studies (245) -- Randomised controlled studies (100) (a few listed studies here, only).

Comparison studies (73) (a few listed studies here, only) -- Naturalistic studies (72) (a few listed studies here, only) -- Other resources (a few listed studies here, only) -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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