White, Tony, 1957-

Working with suicidal individuals : a guide to providing understanding, assessment, and support / Tony White. - London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011. - 271 p. ; 23cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is suicide? -- Transactional analysis -- The suicide decision -- Modeling suicidal behaviour -- Reactions to high stress -- Suicide and self-harm -- Quantitative measures of assessing suicide risk -- Qualitative measures of assessing suicide risk -- The suicide secret and the deliberate suicide risk -- Pseudo suicide, suicide, and teenage suicide -- Suicidal ambivalence -- Suicidal timelines -- The no suicide contract -- Redecision therapy.

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Suicide--psychology.
Risk assessment.
Self-Injurious Behavior--therapy.
Transactional Analysis--methods.