Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide
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- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : January 2009
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Brief Psychotherapy - Category 2 :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 28599
- ISBN 13 : 9780789033949
- ISBN 10 : 0789033941
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Few tasks are more important - and daunting - than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope. This book is a unique resource providing fresh approaches to treating individuals and families where suicide is an issue. It provides a comprehensive and thorough grounding in using a solution-focused therapy approach to elicit and reinforce hope and reasons for living. Strategies are demonstrated with stories, case vignettes, and transcripts. Special applications include some of the most challenging high-risk clients that therapists treat, including people who make repeated attempts. This powerful resource offers a set of practice principles based on the existing empirical evidence in the context of clinical utility and client expertise.
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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.
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