| Description |
216 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Prevention of Suicidal Behaviors: An Overview / Morton M. Silverman and Ronald W. Maris -- 2. Epidemiology of Suicidal Behavior / Eve K. Moscicki -- 3. On the Nature, Magnitude, and Causality of Suicidal Behaviors: An International Perspective / Rene F. W. Diekstra and Nadia Garnefski -- 4. Gender and the Primary Prevention of Suicide Mortality / Silvia S. Canetto and David Lester -- 5. The Place of Suicide Prevention in the Spectrum of Intervention: Definitions of Critical Terms and Constructs / Morton M. Silverman and Robert D. Felner -- 6. Suicide Prevention From a Public Health Perspective / Lloyd Potter, Kenneth E. Powell and S. Patrick Kachur -- 7. Suicide Prevention Programs: Issues of Design, Implementation, Feasibility, and Developmental Appropriateness / Morton M. Silverman and Robert D. Felner -- 8. Suicide Prevention in Canada: A National Perspective Highlighting Progress and Problems / Bryan Tanney |
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9. Suicide Prevention in an Educational Context: Broad and Narrow Foci / John Kalafat and Maurice J. Elias -- 10. Suicide Prevention in a Treatment Setting / Robert E. Litman -- 11. Suicide Prevention in Adolescents (Age 12-18) / Alan L. Berman and David A. Jobes -- 12. Suicide Prevention in Young Adults (Age 18-30) / Alan Lipschitz -- 13. Suicide Prevention in Adults (Age 30-65) / Ronald W. Maris -- 14. Suicide Prevention in the Elderly (Age 65-99) / John L. McIntosh -- 15. Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Suicide Prevention: The Implications of the Dutch Experience / Herbert Hendin -- 16. Postscript: Summary and Synthesis / Ronald W. Maris and Morton M. Silverman |
| Notes |
"Published simultaneously as Suicide and life threatening behavior, volume 25, number 1, Spring 1995" -- T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Suicide -- Prevention.
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| Author |
Maris, Ronald W.
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Silverman, Morton M.
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| LC no. |
95174830 |
| ISBN |
0898628032 |
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