Suicide: Guidelines for Assessment, Management, and Treatment

This multiauthored volume of 16 chapters was designed, according to its editor, "to address the current lacunae in our training efforts in the study of suicide." The work is thus to serve as an introduction and educational text for aspirants in the still evolving field of suicidology. A model training program is offered, and the hope is expressed that a separate professional specialty of suicidology will receive proper recognition. Such a specialty is multidisciplinary and spans many fields of knowledge beyond psychiatry and psychology. The present work makes no effort at a comprehensive review of suicide but rather seeks to point up key issues as a basis for further learning. For example, under the heading "Social Populations" are separate chapters on children, adolescents, and the elderly, and there is no attempt to cover other known high-risk populations such as American Indians. The chapters on treatment focus on the techniques of