New approaches to preventing suicide : a manual for practitioners / edited by David Duffy and Tony Ryan

Published: London : Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley, 2004.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (382 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators: Duffy, David, 1951- and Ryan, Tony, 1958-

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Contents

Introduction / David Duffy and Tony Ryan -- Assessing suicide risk / Jayne Cooper and Nav Kapur -- Primary care / Barry Lewis -- A & E and mental health liaison / Alison Pearsall and Tony Ryan -- Mental health in-patient settings / Nick Bowles -- Community mental health services / Nigel Crompton and Peter Walmsley -- Young men / Mike Smith -- Prisons / Jo Paton and Jo Borrill -- Black and minority ethnic groups / Hari Sewell -- Assisting self-harm: some legal considerations / David Hewitt -- 'Shouting at the spaceman', a conversation about self-harm / Clare Shaw and Christine Hogg -- Adolescents / Gemma Trainor -- The role of the national confidential inquiry in relation to suicide -- Prevention / Jo Robinson and Harriet Bickley -- Using audit / Lester Sireling -- Carrying out internal reviews of serious incidents / Kathryn Hill, Sally Adams, and Suzette Woodward -- Developing training packages / Jenny Droughton [and others] -- International perspectives in suicide prevention, education and training / Richard Ramsay -- Supporting staff and patients after a suicide / Victoria Pallin -- Samaritans: working with everyone, everywhere / Sarah Nelson and Simon Armson -- PAPYRUS: an example of voluntary sector work / Tony Cox, Anne Parry, and Anna Brown -- Community whole systems approaches / Jude Stansfield and Pippa Sargeant -- Useful resources / Rowan Purdy.

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Annotation "This manual provides health, social care and criminal justice professionals with all the most up-to-date information needed to make a positive contribution to suicide prevention in institutional and community settings."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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1423709829 (electronic bk.)
9781423709824 (electronic bk.)
9781843102212 (pbk.)
1843102218 (pbk.)
1846420105
9781846420108
1280266996
9781280266997

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Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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