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Relational Suicide Assessment
Flemons, Douglas; Gralnik, Leonard M.
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Description for Relational Suicide Assessment
A relational approach to evaluating your suicidal clients. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Given the isolating nature of suicidal ideation and actions, it’s all too easy for clinicians conducting a suicide assessment to find themselves developing tunnel vision, becoming overly focused on the client’s individual risk factors. Although critically important to explore, these risks and the danger they pose can’t be fully appreciated without considering them in relation to the person’s resources for safely negotiating a pathway through his or her desperation. And, in turn, these intrapersonal risks and resources must be understood in context—in relation to the interpersonal risks and resources contributed by the client’s significant others.
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Given the isolating nature of suicidal ideation and actions, it’s all too easy for clinicians conducting a suicide assessment to find themselves developing tunnel vision, becoming overly focused on the client’s individual risk factors. Although critically important to explore, these risks and the danger they pose can’t be fully appreciated without considering them in relation to the person’s resources for safely negotiating a pathway through his or her desperation. And, in turn, these intrapersonal risks and resources must be understood in context—in relation to the interpersonal risks and resources contributed by the client’s significant others.
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Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393706529
SKU
V9780393706529
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About Flemons, Douglas; Gralnik, Leonard M.
Douglas Flemons, PhD, LMFT, is Co-Director of Context Consultants, Professor Emeritus of Family Therapy and Former Co-Director of the Office of Suicide and Violence Prevention at Nova Southeastern University. and a Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). For more than thirty years, he has devoted himself to developing—through his practice, research, teaching, ... Read more
Reviews for Relational Suicide Assessment
"Flemons and Gralnik provide an excellent empirically grounded, therapeutically informed approach to suicide risk assessment. . . . [C]ould serve as the starting foundation for a practitioner new to suicide risk assessment and as a catalyst for practitioners who are more knowledgeable and experienced to refine their RSA."
Journal of Psychiatric Practice "[A]n incredible reference book . . . ... Read more
Journal of Psychiatric Practice "[A]n incredible reference book . . . ... Read more