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Suicide Prevention Contracting: The Pitfalls, Perils, and Seven Safer Alternatives
Stephen J. Edwards
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Description for Suicide Prevention Contracting: The Pitfalls, Perils, and Seven Safer Alternatives
Hardback. Num Pages: 236 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 16 tables. BIC Classification: JMP; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 518.
In Suicide Prevention Contracting: The Pitfalls, Perils, and Seven Safer Alternatives, Edwards and Goj expose one of the biggest myths operating in health care and human services for forty years or more. This book will challenge clinicians and their superiors who see Suicide Prevention Contracting (SPC) as a state-of-the-art standard of care intervention. No medical or mental health care professional, educator, lawyer, or health and human services decision maker can afford to ignore what this book presents. A family of new clinical terms and interlinked concepts, describing virtually every aspect of SPC is clearly articulated and ready for use ... Read more
In Suicide Prevention Contracting: The Pitfalls, Perils, and Seven Safer Alternatives, Edwards and Goj expose one of the biggest myths operating in health care and human services for forty years or more. This book will challenge clinicians and their superiors who see Suicide Prevention Contracting (SPC) as a state-of-the-art standard of care intervention. No medical or mental health care professional, educator, lawyer, or health and human services decision maker can afford to ignore what this book presents. A family of new clinical terms and interlinked concepts, describing virtually every aspect of SPC is clearly articulated and ready for use ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
Number of pages
196
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
517g
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Northvale NJ, United States
ISBN
9780765709967
SKU
V9780765709967
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Ref
99-15
About Stephen J. Edwards
Stephen J. Edwards, BSW, PhD, (University of Western Australia) is a current research (honorary) fellow at the University of Western Australia, senior mental health clinician (senior clinical social worker), and child and adolescent mental health service manager with Western Australian Mental Health Services. Christopher Goj, MA, (University of Auckland) is the former staff writer and program manager of ... Read more
Reviews for Suicide Prevention Contracting: The Pitfalls, Perils, and Seven Safer Alternatives
The aim of Suicide Prevention Contracting: The Pitfalls, Perils, and Seven Safer Alternatives is commendable: to caution mental health professionals against unthinkingly using nosuicide contracts. Authors Stephen J. Edwards and Christopher Goj firmly believe that nosuicide contracts are unhelpful, actually compromising treatment because, rather than reinforcing the clinician–client relationship, they erode the empathy and compassion that clinicians offer clients. Thus, ... Read more