Suicide

TKP (Tijdschrift Klinische Psychologie) [Suicide: An Unnecessary Death] was written for workers (and prevention workers) who are looking for an easily readable handbook. All chapters were written by international specialists, in an accessible way.

Professor in Psychiatry and Suicidology at Karolinska Institutet (KI), Danuta Wasserman is the Founding Head of the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) at KI, Stockholm, Sweden since 1993. She is also the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research, Methods Development and Training in Suicide Prevention, and expert advisor to the WHO Office in Copenhagen and Geneve since 1995. Professor Wasserman was President of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) from January 2013 - January 2014. She is a former President of the International Academy of Suicide Research (IASR) and is also Honorary President of the Swedish-Estonian Institute of Suicidology. On a National and Nordic level, Professor Wasserman has built up a National Centre for Suicide Research and the Prevention of Mental Ill-Health and a strong Nordic research network on the prevention of mental disorders.

SECTION I EPIDEMIOLOGY ; 1. Suicide in the world ; SECTION II THEORETICAL MODELS OF SUICIDE BEHAVIOUR ; 2. Stress-vulnerability model of suicidal behaviours ; 3. The suicidal process ; 4. Neurobiology of suicide and attempted suicide ; 5. Social dimensions of suicide ; SECTION III RISK GROUPS FOR SUICIDE ; IIIA PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS ; 6. Depression, bipolar disorders and suicide ; 7. Alcohol, other psychoactive substance use disorders and suicide ; 8. Anxiety and suicide ; 9. Eating disorders and suicide ; 10. Adjustment disorders and suicide ; 11. Suicide risk in schizophrenia ; IIIB PERSONALITY DISORDERS ; 12. Personality disorders and suicide ; IIIC SOMATIC DISORDERS ; 13. Physical illnesses and suicide ; SECTION IV RISK SITUATIONS FOR SUICIDE ; 14. Negative life events and suicide ; 15. Suicidal people's experiences of trauma and negative life events ; 16. Attempted suicide as a risk factor for suicide ; 17. Immigrant populations and suicide ; 18. Suicide in the Criminal Justice System ; 19. Suicide in the Armed Forces ; SECTION V AGE-RELATED SUICIDE ; 20. Adolescent suicide and attempted suicide ; 21. Older adults and suicide ; SECTION VI SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT ; 22. Suicide risk assessment ; 23. The suicidal patient-doctor relationship ; 24. Heuristics and biases in suicide risk assessment ; 25. Psychometric scales in suicide risk assessment ; 26. Strategies in suicide prevention ; SECTION VII HEALTH CARE PERSPECTIVE ; 27. Pharmacological treatment of underlying psychiatric disorders in suicidal patients ; 28. Psychological Treatments for Suicidal Individuals ; 29. Education of general practitioners in depression and suicide prevention ; 30. Collaboration between psychiatrists and other physicians ; 31. The work environment for healthcare staff ; 32. A psycho-educational perspective on family involvement in suicide prevention and postvention ; SECTION VIII PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE ; 33. Perestroika in the former USSR: history's most effective suicide-preventive programme for men ; 34. Controlling the environment to prevent suicide ; 35. Suicide prevention through the Internet ; 36. Suicide prevention in schools