New approaches to preventing suicide a manual for practitioners

Duffy, David, 1951- (Added Author). Ryan, Tony, 1958- (Added Author).

Summary: Annotation "This manual provides health, social care and criminal justice professionals with all the most up-to-date information needed to make a positive contribution to suicide prevention in institutional and community settings."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Record details

ISBN: 1423709829 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781423709824 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781843102212 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1843102218 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1846420105
ISBN: 9781846420108
ISBN: 1280266996
ISBN: 9781280266997
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (382 p.) : ill.
Publisher: London : Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley, 2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:january.19
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction / David Duffy and Tony Ryan -- Assessing suicide risk / Jayne Cooper and Nav Kapur -- Primary care / Barry Lewis -- A & E and mental health liaison / Alison Pearsall and Tony Ryan -- Mental health in-patient settings / Nick Bowles -- Community mental health services / Nigel Crompton and Peter Walmsley -- Young men / Mike Smith -- Prisons / Jo Paton and Jo Borrill -- Black and minority ethnic groups / Hari Sewell -- Assisting self-harm: some legal considerations / David Hewitt -- 'Shouting at the spaceman', a conversation about self-harm / Clare Shaw and Christine Hogg -- Adolescents / Gemma Trainor -- The role of the national confidential inquiry in relation to suicide -- Prevention / Jo Robinson and Harriet Bickley -- Using audit / Lester Sireling -- Carrying out internal reviews of serious incidents / Kathryn Hill, Sally Adams, and Suzette Woodward -- Developing training packages / Jenny Droughton ... [et al.] -- International perspectives in suicide prevention, education and training / Richard Ramsay -- Supporting staff and patients after a suicide / Victoria Pallin -- Samaritans: working with everyone, everywhere / Sarah Nelson and Simon Armson -- PAPYRUS: an example of voluntary sector work / Tony Cox, Anne Parry, and Anna Brown -- Community whole systems approaches / Jude Stansfield and Pippa Sargeant -- Useful resources / Rowan Purdy.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.