Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide Contributor(s): Fiske, Heather (Author) |
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ISBN: 0789033941 ISBN-13: 9780789033949 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $75.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2008 Annotation: Few tasks are more important-and daunting-than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope. Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide is a unique resource providing fresh approaches to treating individuals and families where suicide is an issue. This comprehensive book provides a thorough grounding in using a solution-focused therapy approach to elicit and reinforce hope and reasons for living. Strategies are demonstrated with stories, case vignettes, and transcripts. Special applications include some of the most challenging high-risk clients that therapists treat, including people who make repeated attempts. This powerful resource offers a set of practice principles based on the existing empirical evidence in the context of clinical utility and client expertise. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Suicide - Psychology | Mental Health |
Dewey: 362.28 |
LCCN: 2007046192 |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.05" W x 8.87" (1.08 lbs) 368 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Respectful and effective solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) for suicidal clients Few tasks are more important--and daunting--than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope. Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide is a unique resource providing fresh approaches to treating individuals and families where suicide is an issue. This comprehensive book provides a thorough grounding in using a solution-focused therapy approach to elicit and reinforce hope and reasons for living. Strategies are demonstrated with stories, case vignettes, and transcripts. Special applications include some of the most challenging high-risk clients that therapists treat, including people who make repeated attempts. This powerful resource offers a set of practice principles based on the existing empirical evidence in the context of clinical utility and client expertise. Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide provides case transcripts to help in role-play or rehearsal situations as well as numerous practical tips. The book also provides lists of solution-focused questions for use in various situations, including suicide crisis, the use of anti-depressant medications, facilitation of collaborative working relationships with colleagues as well as clients. Each application chapter gives therapists practical, hands-on tools and uses stories and illustrations to make the book user-friendly. The text also offers a brief appendix on the basic skills of SFBT. Topics discussed in Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide include:
Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide is a valuable resource for counselors and therapists at every experience level. |