Table of Contents

ContributorsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPART I: Suicide Risk AssessmentChapter 1. Suicide Risk Assessment: Gateway to Treatment and ManagementChapter 2. The Interpersonal Art of Suicide Assessment: Interviewing Techniques for Uncovering Suicidal Intent, Ideation, and ActionsChapter 3. The Clinical Risk Assessment InterviewChapter 4. Cultural Competence in Suicide Risk AssessmentChapter 5. Psychological Testing in Suicide Risk ManagementPART II: Major Mental DisordersChapter 6. Depressive DisordersChapter 7. Anxiety DisordersChapter 8. Substance-Related DisordersChapter 9. Bipolar DisorderChapter 10. SchizophreniaChapter 11. Personality DisordersPART III: TreatmentChapter 12. Psychopharmacotherapy and Electroconvulsive TherapyChapter 13. Cognitive Therapy for Suicide PreventionChapter 14. Psychodynamic TreatmentChapter 15. Split Treatment: Coming of AgePART IV: Treatment SettingsChapter 16. Emergency ServicesChapter 17. Outpatient TreatmentChapter 18. Inpatient Psychiatric TreatmentChapter 19. Patient Safety and Freedom of Movement: Coping With UncertaintyPART V: Special PopulationsChapter 20. Children, Adolescents, and College StudentsChapter 21. The ElderlyChapter 22. Suicide Prevention in Jails and PrisonsChapter 23. Clinical Management of Suicide Risk With Military and Veteran PersonnelChapter 24. Suicide and GenderPART VI: Special TopicsChapter 25. Neurobiology of Suicidal BehaviorChapter 26. Combined Murder-SuicideChapter 27. Suicide and the InternetChapter 28. Patient Suicide and LitigationChapter 29. Therapeutic Risk Management of the Suicidal PatientPART VII: PreventionChapter 30. Suicide Prevention by Lethal Means RestrictionsChapter 31. Suicide Prevention ProgramsChapter 32. Suicide Research: Knowledge Gaps and OpportunitiesPART VIII: Aftermath of Suicide and the PsychiatristChapter 33. Psychiatrist Reactions to Patient SuicideChapter 34. Aftermath of Suicide: The Clinician's RoleAppendix 1: Case Scenario Questions for Self-StudyAppendix 2: Answer Guide to Case Scenario Questions for Self-StudyIndex

About the Author

Robert I. Simon, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Program in Psychiatry and Law at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Suburban Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine, in Bethesda, Maryland.

Robert E. Hales, M.D., M.B.A., is Joe P. Tupin Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, California; Medical Director of the Sacramento County Mental Health Services in Sacramento, California; and Editor-in-Chief of American Psychiatric Publishing.

Reviews

This book attends to the full person, as well as to the complexity of suicide risk. It serves as a comprehensive resource for assessing and managing patients with suicidal ideation and behavior and coping with suicide. The provision of case examples throughout this edition is indispensable, with key clinical concepts provided at the end of every chapter.
*The American Journal of Psychiatry*

The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management is likely the best and most comprehensive practitioner's guide available for working with suicidal patients. It is encyclopedic in scope, chapter authors are among the leading national and international authorities on suicide, and the content has a consistent, unmistakable orientation toward evidence-based practice.
*Journal of Psychiatric Practice May 2013*