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Treating Suicidal Behavior

An Effective, Time-Limited Approach

• By M. David Rudd, Thomas Joiner, M. Hasan Rajab

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• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 274
• Published by: Guilford Press
• Publication Date: 2nd September 2004
• ISBN: 978-1-59385-100-2

About the Book

This manual provides an empirically supported approach to treating suicidality that is specifically tailored to today's managed care environment. Structured yet flexible, the model is fully compatible with current best practice standards. The authors establish the empirical and theoretical foundations for time-limited treatment and describe the specific tasks involved in assessment and intervention. The book then details effective ways to conduct a rapid case conceptulization and outpatient risk assessment, determine and implement individualized treatment targets and monitor treatment outcomes. Outlines are clear-cut intervention techniques that focus on symptom management, restructuring the patient's suicidal belief system, and building such key skills as interpersonal assertiveness, distress tolerance, and problems solving. Other topics covered include the role of the therapeutic relationship, applications to group work and longer-term therapy, the use of medications, patient selection, and termination of treatment. Illustrated with helpful clinical examples, the book also features dozens of table, figures, and sample handouts and forms.

Reviews

'This remarkable book deftly guides the practitioner through the considerable challenges of working with suicidal patients. It is among the first (and only) comprehensive works of its kind. The authors manage to incorporate the wisdom of empirical science into a realistic and user-friendly practical approach....The liberal use of intriguing case examples helps illustrate a broad range of theoretically grounded, intuitively appealing techniques and interventions that are essential to lifesaving clinical work. Written with great clarity, the book will be valuable for everyone from graduate students to mature clinicians. I am certain that the ripple of this book's impact on the field of clinical suicidology will be seen for many years to come.' - David A. Jobes, PhD, The Catholic University of America; Past President, American Association of Suicidology

Table of Contents

Establishing a Foundation for Treatment. What Do We Know about Treating Suicidality?: A Critical Review of the Literature. A Cognitive-Behavioral Model of Suicidality An Overview of the Treatment Process. Assessment and Treatment. Treatment Course and Session-by-Session Guidelines. The Evaluation Process and the Initial Interviews. Assessing Suicide Risk. Crisis Intervention and Initial Symptom Management. Reducing and Eliminating Suicide-Related Behaviors. Cognitive Restructuring Changing the Suicidal Belief System and Building a Philosophy for Living. Skill Building: Developing Adaptive Modes and Ensuring Lasting Change. Epilogue.

About the Author(s)

M. David Rudd, Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training at Baylor University, USA, also in part-time private practice.

Thomas Joiner, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychology Clinic at Florida State University, USA

M. Hasan Rajab, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Texas A&M Health Science Center, USA

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