The Oxford handbook of suicide and self-injury /
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, [2014] ©2014 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 516 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford library of psychology Oxford library of psychology. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11754456 |
| Summary: | Suicide is a perplexing human behavior that remains among the leading causes of death worldwide, responsible for more deaths each year than all wars, genocide, and homicide combined. Although suicide and other forms of self-injury have baffled scholars and clinicians for thousands of years, the past few decades have brought significant leaps in our understanding of these behaviors. This volume provides a comprehensive summary of the most important and exciting advances in our understanding of suicide and self-injury and our ability to predict and prevent it. Comprised of a formidable who's who in the field, the handbook covers the full spectrum of topics in suicide and self-injury across the lifespan, including the classification of different self-injurious behaviors, epidemiology, assessment techniques, and intervention. Chapters probe relevant issues in our society surrounding suicide, including assisted suicide and euthanasia, suicide terrorism, overlap between suicidal behavior and interpersonal violence, ethical considerations for suicide researchers, and current knowledge on survivors of suicide. The most comprehensive handbook on suicide and self-injury to date, this volume is a must-read text for graduate students, fellows, academic and research psychologists, and other researchers working in the brain and behavioral sciences. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 516 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190209148 0190209143 9780199984787 0199984786 9780195388565 0195388569 |