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Suicidology: A Comprehensive Biopsychosocial Perspective

Suicidology: A Comprehensive Biopsychosocial Perspective

by David A. Jobes (Author), Ronald W. Maris (Author)

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Synopsis

Integrating research from multiple disciplines, this text provides a comprehensive perspective on suicide and examines what works in prevention and intervention. The author is a pioneering researcher and clinician who addresses the classification, prevalence, and assessment of suicide and self-destructive behaviors and explores risk factors at multiple levels, from demographic variables, personality traits, psychiatric diagnoses, and neurobiological factors to the social and cultural context. Student-friendly features include text boxes that dive deeply into specific issues, instructive figures and tables, thought-provoking clinical cases, and engaging examples from literature and popular culture. The text reviews medical and psychosocial treatment and prevention approaches, discusses ways to help those bereaved by suicide, and considers issues of professional liability.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 554
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 09 Apr 2019
ISBN 10: 1462536980
ISBN 13: 9781462536986

Media Reviews

There are now many books and countless articles pertaining to suicide prevention. Nevertheless, there is no text quite like this one, which covers the field in all its dimensions, nuances, and complexities....The next time I teach my Seminar on Suicide course, this book will be the text around which I will organize the class, because there is no better collection of suicide prevention knowledge in the literature....A gift to the field. --from the Foreword by David A. Jobes, PhD, ABPP, Department of Psychology, The Catholic University of America

A giant of suicidology, Maris offers us a uniquely thorough appraisal of one of the most complex of human tragedies. This remarkable authored volume has the special advantage of providing a harmonious synthesis of many years of research and clinical and forensic practice in suicidology at the highest professional levels. Wise and detailed examinations of famous case histories make this book a `must have' for those interested in deepening their knowledge of the suicide enigma. Clinicians and students alike will treasure it. --Diego de Leo, PhD, MD, DSc, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Griffith University, Australia

Author Bio
Ronald W. Maris, PhD, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Family Medicine, and Sociology at the University of South Carolina (USC), where he directed the Center for the Study of Suicide for 15 years. He is a forensic suicidologist who offers investigation, consultation, and testimony on a variety of civil and criminal cases. Dr. Maris has written or edited 22 books and about 100 articles. He is past president of the American Association of Suicidology and a past editor of the journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. The recipient of four teaching awards from USC, Dr. Maris was certified in forensic suicidology by the American Association of Suicidology and earned Fellow status in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. He has been invited to address the U.S. Congress on veteran suicides; was a consultant on the Columbia University/Food and Drug Administration project to analyze data on the relationship of suicidality and antidepressant treatment in children and adolescents, leading to black-box warnings; and has served as consultant and reviewer for grant applications to the National Institute of Mental Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and the National Academy of Sciences.