Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Suicide Research (Routledge International Handbooks)

Suicide remains one of the most pressing public health concerns across the world. Expensive in terms of the human cost and associated suffering, the economic costs, the social costs and the spiritual costs, it affects millions of people every year. This important reference work collects together a wide range of research around suicide and suicide prevention, in order to guide future research and provide guidance for professionals about the best way to respond meaningfully to suicidal patients. Responding to the need for multi-disciplinary and international research to deepen our understanding of suicide, it demonstrates where our knowledge is firmly evidence-based and where new areas for research are emerging, as well as highlighting where we know little. Divided into six parts, each with its own editorial introduction and commentary, it explores research with and about survivors of suicide and indigenous populations. The remaining sections look at suicide-focused research in psychiatric nursing, psychiatry, psychology, and social work and allied health. It is of interest to all advanced students, practitioners and scholars interested in suicide and its impact and prevention. Cover 1 Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Suicide Research 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 List of figures 14 List of tables 16 Notes on contributors 18 Foreword: A view from a suicide survivor 32 Foreword: A view from a member of the Canadian parliament 36 Foreword: A view from a member of the World Health Organization: Europe Office 38 Preface 42 1 Introduction: suicide as a significant and growing public health concern: coalescing and building our understanding through interdisciplinary and international scholarship 44 Part I Nursing 50 Editorial introduction 51 2 How psychiatric nurses experience suicidal patients: a qualitative meta-analysis 54 3 A mixed methods study of the increased risk of suicide following discharge: a long road ahead 67 4 Transcending suicidality: facilitating re-vitalizing worthiness 82 5 Providing meaningful care: using the experiences of young suicidal men to inform mental health care services 95 6 Expressed emotion and suicidal behaviors 106 Editorial commentary 120 Part II Psychiatry 124 Editorial introduction 125 7 Genetics of the serotonergic system and implications for suicide research 128 8 Means restriction as a suicide prevention strategy: lessons learned and future directions 137 9 Suicide in diverse populations: implications for Canada’s suicide strategies 146 10 Suicide-related behaviour in Chinese women: illustrating the role of cultural conceptions of gender in understanding and preventing suicide 157 11 Matrix model for suicide prevention: focus on Canada and India 170 Editorial commentary 186 Part III Psychology 190 Editorial introduction 191 12 USA suicide: epidemiology 194 13 Attitudes toward therapists who lose patients to suicide 210 14 Impact of client suicide on practitioner post-traumatic growth 222 15 Suicide risk: themes for high quality assessment 230 16 Trajectory-based models in the study of suicide 241 Editorial commentary 252 Part IV Social work and allied health care disciplines 254 Editorial introduction 255 17 Is research with suicidal participants risky business? 258 18 Creating an intervention for people with recurrent suicide attempts 270 19 What changes? What does it mean? A clinical intervention for people with recurrent suicide attempts 280 20 Suicide: towards a clinical portrait 292 21 Motivation, resisting, considering and accepting: a qualitative study investigating young adults’ participation in an intervention group for people with recurrent suicide-related behaviours 302 Editorial commentary 314 Part V Suicide survivors 318 Editorial introduction 319 22 The LOSS Team: an important postvention component of suicide prevention: results of a program evaluation 322 23 “Nobody talks about suicide, except if they’re kidding”: disenfranchised and re-enfranchised grief and coping strategies in peer suicide grievers 332 24 Can good come from bad? Do suicide survivors experience growth from their loss? 341 25 Family needs following the suicide of a child: the role of the helping professions 351 26 Supporting mothers bereaved by suicide in Northern Ireland: integrating research and practice 360 Editorial commentary 369 Part VI Indigenous peoples 372 Editorial introduction 373 27 “And I live it”: from suicidal crisis to activism among members of the Kwakwaka’wakw and Coast Salish nations 376 28 The facilitation of healing for Indigenous youth who are suicidal: a retrospective exploratory study 394 29 Identity formation and cultural resilience in Aboriginal communities 407 30 Indigenous youth suicide: a systematic review of the literature 421 Editorial commentary 445 Index 447