Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Suicide

What do you do when someone you love has taken their own life? You have entered a whole new world that you did not choose to enter and where you feel confused and alone. This book not only will help guide survivors of suicide through the very difficult time of grief, but offers hope at a time that seems so hopeless. This book shows how to receive the help so greatly needed and how there can be victory in a time of unbelievable grief.

Give this book to any person going through this grief process and it will be a great help in traveling the path back to a fruitful and even happy...

Not since the great military suicide epidemic of the American Civil War have we seen so many of our heroes, our soldiers and veterans, die by suicide. Why? War is violence. There is intent to cause death, or serious injury, or threat to the physical and psychological integrity of others. War stress is unforgiving. Suicide is an all too frequent response. Today, one member of the military dies by suicide every day. This is a new epidemic. This book addresses some tough questions: What do we know about suicides in the military? Are rates high? Or low? Is military suicide the same or...

Barbara Bate, PhD, knows about tsunamis. Living in the Pacific Northwest, she likens the threat of killer waves that engulf whole communities to the experiences of people who fear their own "tsunamis of the mind." Extreme changes of emotion and energy can be devastating to the person who is living through them and to others who are close to them.

Many people hide their symptoms from their closest friends and loved ones due to stigma and shame. Maybe you are experiencing an inner tsunami, confused by what is happening, and ashamed to ask for help. If you feel alone in this...

The International Handbook of Suicide Prevention, 2nd Edition, presents a series of readings that consider the individual and societal factors that lead to suicide, it addresses ways these factors may be mitigated, and presents the most up-to-date evidence for effective suicide prevention approaches.

• An updated reference that shows why effective suicide prevention can only be achieved by understanding the many reasons why people choose to end their lives
• Gathers together contributions from more than 100 of the world's leading authorities on suicidal...

Many researchers, writers and poets have described, defined and tried to explain the suicide phenomenon. Yet, even in the 21st century, it is still a mystery, shrouded in secret, stigma and shame. These characteristics are transmitted, after the suicide, to the surviving family members.

What happens to them?

What is the impact of the suicide of their relative, on them?

Through interviews with parents, children, spouses and siblings of people who have committed suicide, Shirley Avrami explores the long lasting and heavy burden the survivors themselves are...

The Oxford Handbook of Suicide and Self-Injury provides a comprehensive summary of the most important and exciting advances in our understanding of suicide and self-injury and our ability to predict...

• Offers invaluable guidance for suicide prevention by showing -what works- in treating those struggling with suicidal thoughts
• Provides straightforward ways to deal frankly with the subject of suicide, along with a range of tools and techniques that are helpful to clients
• Includes actual dialogue between practitioners and clients to allow readers to gain a better understanding of how to work...