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Women and Suicidal Behavior
This volume fills a major gap in the literature on suicide and contrasts with previous works that have addressed suicidal behavior in women from a male perspective. In the past, researchers have focused on suicide mortality, a less frequent and typically male phenomenon, and from that have drawn conclusions about nonfatal suicidal behavior, a more frequent and typically female phenomenon. In an effort to avoid inherent research biases in suicidology, this book critically reviews the most current research on suicide and women from a woman's perspective. The contributors consider the social and cultural factors involved, including age-related and ethnic issues, and also provide useful intervention strategies. This volume is a worthy addition to the libraries of clinicians, academics, and students concerned with the psychology of women, suicide, and death studies.
Review of Suicidology, 2000
This volume presents current ideas and scientific findings on key topics in the field of suicidology. Chapters from noted authorities address a broad range of psychological, social, and biological factors in suicidal behavior and report on advances in prevention and treatment. Topics covered include adolescent suicide, psychopharmacological treatment for at-risk patients, cultural beliefs and behaviors, and cognitive risk factors. Also addressed are the scientific basis of clinical practice in suicidology, suicidality in children and older adults, and the debates around physician-assisted death. Designed for both professionals and students, the book demonstrates the role of high-quality research in promoting a fuller understanding of suicidal behavior and facilitating the development of effective therapeutic interventions.
Review of Suicidology, 1997
Presenting the latest scientific knowledge abut suicidology behaviors, including reports of important research being published here for the first time, this volume is designed for both professionals and students in the field. Noted authorities cover selected topics from among the broad variety of psychological, social, and biological factors involved in suicidology. Diverse theoretical perspectives are discussed, and a range of therapeutic interventions are described and evaluated. This book will be of interest to professionals, faculty, and students in psychology, psychiatry, social work, sociology, public health, epidemiology, pastoral counselling, and crisis intervention.
Global Cultural Studies?
Can cultural studies attend to the problems of our globalized world? Or is this project of "engaged scholarship" too deeply rooted in the parochial terrain of the national? This collection of essays - the first volume in the new JMU Cultural Studies publication series - attends to this vital yet difficult question. Based on joint seminars bringing together emerging scholars from Germany and India, the contributions confront "classic texts" from US-American, British, and Indian cultural studies with the specific concerns and contemporary perspectives of the authors. The collection thus tests the potentials of the tradition to speak to the transnational as well as the national environments of the very present. Emphasis is placed on Marxist and feminist legacies, which are then projected into the domains of contemporary disability, food, and film studies.
Histories of Suicide
This interdisciplinary collection of essays assembles historians, health economists, anthropologists, and sociologists, who examine the history of suicide from a variety of approaches to provide crucial insight into how suicide differs across nations, cultures, and time periods.
Treatment Of Suicidal People
Treatment of suicidal people takes three forms: prevention - strategies to avert conditions leading to suicide; intervention - treatment and care during the crisis; and postvention - response after the event has occurred. Unlike other current literature, here the focus is on the state of the art of intervention. This type of examination is essential, because suicidal people themselves are in need of such treatments - crisis intervention, psychotherapy, psychopharmacology and hospitalization. Written by professionals in the field, the Treatment of Suicidal People allows readers to participate in a learning experience. First is a case presentation of an individual - Arthur Inman - and his long...
End-of-Life Issues, Grief, and Bereavement
A practical overview of clinical issues related to end-of-life care, including grief and bereavement The needs of individuals with life-limiting or terminal illness and those caring for them are well documented. However, meeting these needs can be challenging, particularly in the absence of a well-established evidence base about how best to help. In this informative guide, editors Sara Qualls and Julia Kasl-Godley have brought together a notable team of international contributors to produce a clear structure offering mental health professionals a framework for developing the competencies needed to work with end-of-life care issues, challenges, concerns, and opportunities. Part of the Wiley S...
Choosing Death
In this case study of the Republic of Geneva, Jeffrey R. Watt convincingly argues the early modern era marked decisive change in the history of suicide. His analysis of criminal proceedings and death records shows that magistrates of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries often imposed penalties against the bodies and estates of those who took their lives. According to beliefs shared by theologian John Calvin, magistrates, and common folk, self-murder was caused by demon possession. Similar views and practices were found among both Protestants and Catholics throughout Reformation Europe. By contrast, in the late eighteenth century many philosophies defended the right to take one's lif...
