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The Harvard Medical School Guide to Suicide Assessment and Intervention
Jacobs
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Description for The Harvard Medical School Guide to Suicide Assessment and Intervention
Hardcover. Whether the reader is a school counsellor, a nurse, a doctor, or a behavioural health care professional, knowing when a person is truly suicidal and taking the mandated steps to prevent them from harming themselves is possibly the most difficult task they face. This is a guide to this area. Editor(s): Jacobs, Douglas. Num Pages: 736 pages, index. BIC Classification: JKSN2; MMH; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 182 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1317.
This vital resource--edited by Harvard Medical School's DouglasJacobs, a nationally recognized expert on suicide anddepression--is the definitive guide for helping mental healthprofessionals determine the risk for suicide and appropriateinterventions for suicidal or at-risk patients. Created primarilyfor mental health clinicians (with several chapters directed towardprimary care physicians), the book is a hands-on guide for thosewho are often the first line of defense for assessing if a patientor client is suicidal.
Comprehensive in scope, the book offers a wealth of informationabout such useful topics as inpatient and outpatient issues,psychopharmacology, and advice about working with specialpopulations. Most importantly, the book's ... Read more
This vital resource--edited by Harvard Medical School's DouglasJacobs, a nationally recognized expert on suicide anddepression--is the definitive guide for helping mental healthprofessionals determine the risk for suicide and appropriateinterventions for suicidal or at-risk patients. Created primarilyfor mental health clinicians (with several chapters directed towardprimary care physicians), the book is a hands-on guide for thosewho are often the first line of defense for assessing if a patientor client is suicidal.
Comprehensive in scope, the book offers a wealth of informationabout such useful topics as inpatient and outpatient issues,psychopharmacology, and advice about working with specialpopulations. Most importantly, the book's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
736
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787943035
SKU
V9780787943035
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99-50
About Jacobs
DOUGLAS G. JACOBS M.D., is associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and executive director of the nonprofit National Mental Illness Screening Project. He has edited two textbooks on suicide, Suicide: Understanding and Responding and Suicide and Clinical Practice.
Reviews for The Harvard Medical School Guide to Suicide Assessment and Intervention
"The Harvard Guide puts the best and the brightest of consultingsuicidologists on the practicing clinician's bookshelf, . . . .must-read." (Lanny Berman, executive director, American Associationof Suicidology) "[This book] presents the most up-to-date material and combinesthis framework with practical suggestions for the clinician. Thisis sure to become a classic." (Alan F. Schatzberg, Kenneth T.Norris, Jr. Professor and ... Read more