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Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide

Author(s) : Heather Fiske

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Provides case transcripts to help in role-play or rehearsal situations as well as numerous practical tips. The book also provides lists of solution-focused questions for use in various situations, including suicide crisis, the use of anti-depressant medications, facilitation of collaborative working relationships with colleagues as well as clients. Each application chapter gives therapists practical, hands-on tools and uses stories and illustrations to make the book user-friendly. The text also offers a brief appendix on the basic skills of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT).

Topics discussed include:
* current knowledge about preventing suicide at the individual level
* helping clients to utilize their strengths even when they are in crisis
* how research in diverse areas supports the solution-focused approach
* effective treatment for couples and families when one member is suicidal
* basic approaches to effective therapy with young children and teens who have attempted suicide
* respectful, effective therapy with people who seem to have adopted being suicidal as their primary coping strategy
* therapeutic tools that help the therapist to stay hopeful about clients and strengthen the therapeutic relationship

"Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations about Suicide" is a valuable resource for counselors and therapists at every experience level.