Understanding Suicidal Behaviour: The Suicidal Process Approach to Research, Treatment and Prevention

Understanding Suicidal Behaviour: The Suicidal Process Approach to Research, Treatment and Prevention
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336
ISBN
 
9780471491668
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Wiley
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Книги издательства Willey

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How can suicide be prevented and treated by mental health professionals? This book offers a clinical guide to the assessment, treatment and prevention of suicidal behaviour, from a new and useful theoretical perspective a developmental process approach. The book presents the arguments and research evidence that suicidal behaviour is not just a response to current emotional crises, but is influenced by persistent characteristics that can be defined in psychological anbd biological terms. The authors bring together research based evidence that establishes three key aspects of the development process approach: suicidal behaviour results from the interaction between stressful life events and an individual vulnerability; this individual vulnerability is itself the product of psychobiological factors, genetics and past life events; vulnerability, in this sense, influences how the the individual perceives, interprets and reacts to adverse life events, perhaps leading to...

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