The Suicidal Crisis: Clinical Guide to the Assessment of Imminent Suicide Risk, 2nd Edition (EPUB)

The Suicidal Crisis: Clinical Guide to the Assessment of Imminent Suicide Risk

By Igor Galynker
Suicide is a critical problem that needs to be addressed with a systematic and comprehensive approach to prevent it. It is observed that most people who die by suicide had seen a clinician before taking their lives. Therefore, clinicians must determine whether or not a patient is at risk for immediate suicide; this is one of the most challenging decisions a clinician has to make. A Clinical Guide to the Assessment of Imminent Suicide Risk, The Suicidal Crisis, is the first book of its kind written specifically to aid clinicians in evaluating the risk of such imminent suicidal behavior.

The Suicidal Crisis is an essential work that provides a framework for understanding suicide. It describes suicide as an attempt of a vulnerable person to escape an unbearable life situation that is perceived as both intolerable and inescapable, and it presents a wealth of clinical material in the easy-to-understand and intuitive framework of the Narrative-Crisis model of suicidal behavior. The book contains sixty individual case studies of actual suicidal individuals and their interviews, detailed instructions on how to conduct such interviews, and risk assessment test cases with answer keys.

Dr. Igor Galynker, master clinician and author of The Suicidal Crisis, provides a method for understanding the suicidal process and identifying those at the highest risk for taking their lives in this extensively updated edition. The book is an essential and illuminating read for any clinician who works with suicidal individuals and anyone who knows someone who has considered suicide.

Product Details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press; 2nd edition (April 11, 2023)
• Language: English
• File Size: 544 pages
• ISBN-10: 0197582710
• ISBN-13: 978-0197582718