Suicide from a global perspective : psychosocial approaches
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Suicide from a global perspective : psychosocial approaches
（Psychology of emotions, motivations and actions series）
Nova Science Publishers, c2012
- : hardcover
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The ageing of populations and the high prevalence of chronic diseases are risk factors for suicide, as well as the increasing prevalence of several mental disorders. The continuing growth of several other risk factors for suicide makes it possible to predict an increase in suicide rates worldwide unless resolute action is undertaken to prevent suicidal behaviour. A major problem in that respect is that, in many countries, suicide is not seen as a major public health problem despite its frequency and the severity of its consequences. A textbook bringing together current knowledge about suicide, its causes and its prevention is a precious tool for public health efforts and for clinicians' daily work and provides useful information from psychological, sociological and cultural perspectives which will help health professionals and provide them with data that they can use in developing proposals for action.
Table of Contents
- Cognition & suicide
- Loss, hopelessness & suicide
- Self-destructive motivation: An evolutionary perspective
- Suicide & life events
- Stress, lifestyle, & suicidal behavior
- What we can learn from suicide notes: A study in India
- Childhood trauma in suicidal behavior
- Protective factors
- Sociological perspectives on suicide
- Advances in sociological approaches to understanding suicide
- Suicide & unemployment
- Suicide & economic status
- Suicide in rural & urban communities
- Suicide, environment & ecology
- Immigration & risk for suicide
- The impact of the media on suicide
- A strain theory of suicide
- Suicide & disasters
- Cultural psychodynamics & suicidal behavior
- Hidden suicide in the developing world
- Suicide in Sri Lanka
- Suicide in the former Soviet Union (USSR)
- Suicide in the Peoples Republic of China
- Suicide in Japan
- Suicide in Israel
- Suicide in India
- Suicide in sub-Saharan Africa
- Subsyndromal suicide: An Arab perspective
- Outcome & implications of research in suicidology from developing countries
- Index.
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