Suicide Across the Life Span: Premature Exits

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Taylor & Francis, 1996 - 349 pages
A revised edition of the text reviewing the current literature on suicide in Western culture, approaching the topic from a historical as well as a clinical perspective and covering the life span from childhood to old age. Each life passage is discussed with an eye to understanding and empathizing with its particular stresses and discussing therapies which might prevent suicide. Case studies are provided to aid the student in seeing both the cause and effect of treatment cycles. This edition features new chapters on prevention and postvention, and physician-assisted suicide issues. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Contents

Chapter 2
41
Chapter 3
73
Suicide in Young Adulthood
121
Suicide in Middle Adulthood
141
Suicide Among the Elderly
169
Suicide Prevention and Postvention
197
Approaches for Treating Suicidal People
237
Contemporary Issues in Suicide
269
Afterword
293
References
303
Index
325
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