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Suicide Assessment and Treatment Dana Worchel

Suicide Assessment and Treatment By Dana Worchel

Suicide Assessment and Treatment by Dana Worchel


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Teaches evidence-based treatments for suicide. This book discusses suicide identification, assessment, and treatment across various special populations. It provides graduate students and health professionals with the essential knowledge in incidence and prevalence rates of suicidal behaviors in various demographic and diagnostic groups.

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Suicide Assessment and Treatment: Empirical and Evidence-Based Practices by Dana Worchel

This book is a graduate level text designed to teach the latest, evidence-based treatments for suicide. While it is intended primarily as a text, it may also be a useful reference for health care practitioners. The book discusses suicide identification, assessment, and treatment across various special populations. It also includes textbook features such as chapter objectives, vignettes, role play exercises, quizzes, case studies, and more. This book is designed to provide graduate students and health professionals with the essential knowledge in the following areas: incidence and prevalence rates of suicidal behaviors in various demographic and diagnostic groups; risk and identification of suicidal behaviors across the lifecycle (children/adolescents, adults, elderly); risk and identification of suicidal behaviors in special populations (military, LGBT, and more); and, impact and treatment of survivors of suicide.

About Dana Worchel

Dana Worchel, PhD, is an assistant professor at Columbia University, School of Social Work. Dr. Worchel has a wide range of clinical experience working with individuals with mood disorders and suicidality in outpatient, inpatient, and psychiatric emergency room settings. During the past 8 years, Dr. Worchel has conducted research examining risk and protective factors across cultures related to mood disorders and suicidal behavior. Her research has also focused on the development of novel interventions aimed at improving treatment engagement and adherence among suicide attempters. As a principal investigator, Dr. Worchel has received funding for her research, including the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). Dr. Worchel currently teaches clinical practice with a special focus on adult mental illness and individuals with suicidality.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION; Chapter One: Introduction to Suicidality; Chapter Two: Ethical and Philosophical Issues in Suicide; Chapter Three: The Role of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in Suicide; Chapter Four: Religion, Spirituality, and Suicide; PART TWO: EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENTS; Chapter Five: Crisis Management; Chapter Six: Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT); Chapter Seven: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT); Chapter Eight: Psychopharmacology; PART THREE: SPECIAL POPULATIONS; Chapter Nine: Working with Children and Adolescents; Chapter Ten: Working with Adults; Chapter Eleven: Working with The Elderly; Chapter Twelve: Working with Vulnerable Groups.

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CIN0826116981G
9780826116987
0826116981
Suicide Assessment and Treatment: Empirical and Evidence-Based Practices by Dana Worchel
Used - Good
Hardback
Springer Publishing Co Inc
20100630
384
N/A
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