Treatment Approaches with Suicidal Adolescents

ISBN-13: 9780471102366 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 320 str.

Zimmerman; James K. Zimmerman; Gregory M. Asnis

Opis

Adolescents are among the highest risk groups for suicide. This manual provides clinicians with guidelines for identifying and treating suicidal adolescents. It covers in-patient treatment, family-centered therapy, psychodynamic therapy, cognitive/behaviour therapy, group therapy, and psychopharmacological intervention. The author reviews current knowledge regarding the biological, psychological and social risk factors for adolescent suicide.

Spis treści

Partial table of contents:

Treating Suicidal Adolescents: Is It Really Worth It?

(J. Zimmerman).

Suicidal Behavior in Adolescents: A Review of Risk and Protective Factors (D. Grosz, et al.).

DIAGNOSIS, ASSESSMENT, AND CRISIS INTERVENTION.

Assessment and Prediction of Suicide Risk in Adolescents (A. Leenaars & D. Lester).

Crisis Intervention with Suicidal Adolescents: A View from the Emergency Room (R. Catenaccio).

Immediately After the Attempt: Evaluation and Brief Therapy on a Medical Ward (E. Dulit).

TREATMENT.

Psychodynamic Treatment of Adolescent Suicide Attempters (D. Jobes).

Group Treatment of Suicidal Adolescents (S. Aronson & S. Scheidlinger).

Adolescent Suicide: Diagnosis, Psychopharmacology, and Psychotherapeutic Management (J. Kahn, et al.).

CONCLUSION.

Summary and Future Directions (J. Zimmerman).

Indexes.

O autorze

Influenced in his teens by literary luminaries such as Langston Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Gary Snyder, and Lord Buckley, and by Buddhist philosophy and meditation, James K. Zimmerman became a singer/songwriter, arranger, and producer in the music business in his twenties. In his thirties, he obtained a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, and edited and wrote chapters for Treatment Approaches with Suicidal Adolescents (Wiley, 1995). Recepient of the Cloudbank Poetry Award, the Hart Crane Poetry Award, and the Daniel Varoujan Poetry Award.