Ebook: Suicide Science: Expanding the Boundaries

Suicide kills and maims victims; traumatizes loved ones; preoccupies clinicians; and costs health care and emergency agencies fortunes. It should therefore demand a wealth of theoretical, scientific, and fiduciary attention. But in many ways it has Why? Although the answer to this question is multi-faceted, this volume not. supposes that one answer to the question is a lack of elaborated and penetrating theoretical approaches. The authors of this volume were challenged to apply their considerable theoretical wherewithal to this state of affairs. They have risen to this challenge admirably, in that several ambitious ideas are presented and developed. Ifever a phenomenon should inspire humility, it is suicide, and the volume’s authors realize this. Although several far-reaching views are proposed, they are pitched as first approximations, with the primary goal of stimulating still more conceptual and empirical work. A pressing issue in suicide science is the topic of clinical interventions, and clinical approaches more generally. Here too, this volume contributes, covering such topics as therapeutics and prevention, comorbidity, special populations, and clinicalrisk factors.

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Suicide is a pressing international health problem, yet its breadth remains unacknowledged. The principal purpose of Suicide Science is to expand the boundaries of suicide research, by focusing on fresh approaches to the problems as well as on emerging areas of research emphasis. Expert contributors from related fields of study each lend a unique and meaningful perspective to suicidology. The end result is an important work which will prove invaluable to clinicians and researchers grappling with this vexing public health issue.

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Suicide is a pressing international health problem, yet its breadth remains unacknowledged. The principal purpose of Suicide Science is to expand the boundaries of suicide research, by focusing on fresh approaches to the problems as well as on emerging areas of research emphasis. Expert contributors from related fields of study each lend a unique and meaningful perspective to suicidology. The end result is an important work which will prove invaluable to clinicians and researchers grappling with this vexing public health issue.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
New Life in Suicide Science....Pages 1-7
Decades of Suicide Research: Wherefrom and Whereto?....Pages 9-16
The Hopelessness Theory of Suicidality....Pages 17-32
Escaping the Self Consumes Regulatory Resources: A Self-Regulatory Model of Suicide....Pages 33-41
Toward an Integrated Theory of Suicidal Behaviors: Merging the Hopelessness, Self-Discrepancy, and Escape Theories....Pages 43-66
Shame, Guilt, and Suicide....Pages 67-79
Mood Regulation and Suicidal Behavior....Pages 81-103
Desperate Acts for Desperate Times: Looming Vulnerability and Suicide....Pages 105-115
Suicide and Panic Disorder. Integration of the Literature and New Findings....Pages 117-136
Suicide Risk in Externalizing Syndromes: Temperamental and Neurobiological Underpinnings....Pages 137-173
Studying Interpersonal Factors in Suicide: Perspectives from Depression Research....Pages 175-200
Gender, Social Roles, and Suicidal Ideation and Attempts in a General Population Sample....Pages 201-220
Suicidal Behavior in African American Women with a History of Childhood Maltreatment....Pages 221-240
Issues in the Evaluation of Youth Suicide Prevention Initiatives....Pages 241-249
Recognition and Treatment of Suicidal Youth: Broadening Our Research Agenda....Pages 251-269
A Conceptual Scheme for Assessing Treatment Outcome in Suicidality....Pages 271-278