Preventing Suicide Solution Approach

New edition of an acclaimed manual which uses the solution focused approach to take an empathetic and validating approach to working with individuals considering suicide. Now revised and updated, Preventing Suicide: The Solution Focused Approach continues to garner widespread acclaim for offering a wealth of practical guidance to individual suicide prevention. With worldwide implications for the reduction of suicide rates, solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is a ground-breaking approach to helping those contemplating suicide find alternative solutions to their problems. Maintaining his accessible writing style for the widest possible audience, author John Henden shows practitioners how to help clients move quickly through and beyond the crisis which has prompted suicidal thinking and ideas. Presenting a stark departure from the current risk assessment, management, and medication approach to suicidal clients, Henden provides straightforward ways to deal frankly with the subject of suicide itself, along with a range of tools and techniques found to be immediately helpful to the client. New edition of an acclaimed manual which uses the solution focused approach to take an empathetic and validating approach to working with individuals considering suicide. 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 with suicidal clients Compares and contrasts a ground-breaking approach to suicide prevention with more traditional approaches to risk assessment and management Features numerous updates and revisions along with brand new sections dealing with the international landscape, blaming the suicided person, Dr Alys Cole-King’s ‘Connecting with People’, and telephone work with the suicidal, Human Givens Therapy, and zero suicide