Suicide - The Ultimate Rejection?

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-335-23259-8
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

Suicide - The Ultimate Rejection? is an interdisciplinary text based on Colin Pritchard's first-hand experience both as a practising psychiatric social worker and social researcher. It provides an analysis of current research on suicide, exploring possible 'causes' and how best to intervene, and makes the case for a science based practice 'art'. International rates of suicide are examined as the author looks at suicide in a cross-cultural context showing how it is differently understood in different ethnic groups, reflecting various degrees of stigma. He argues for greater recognition of these key differences between cultures and ethnic groups, and shows how important they can be to our understanding and intervention.

Suicide - The Ultimate Rejection? explores the concepts of prediction and prevention and asks how the current health and community services might work to reduce the number of suicides in line with the targets set by the government's Health of the Nation. Different approaches to intervention and treatment are considered, with emphasis on those which research has shown to be the most promising. Special attention is given to the families of the victim, and in the final pages a wider view of suicide which includes euthanasia is explored. Using new research, Colin Pritchard examines the practical and moral issues raised by euthanasia.

Suicide will be of interest to students of social work, psychiatric nursing, health visiting and medicine, as well as health professionals and counsellors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pritchard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue
Introduction
Suicide in history and literature
Defining suicide {1} psychiatric and substance abuse factors
Defining suicide {2} other contributory psycho-social factors
The dilemma of deliberate self harm and suicidal behaviour in young adults
The sociology of mental health and suicide
An integrated needs led intervention and treatment model
Family 'survivors'
hidden casualties?
Euthanasia
an epilogue for mental illness?
Synthesis and conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

The Author

Colin Pritchard holds the foundation Chair in Social Work Studies at Southampton University. He is a practising Psychiatric Social Worker, and this practice base is essential to his teaching and research. His work includes international comparisons of suicide, child abuse, cot deaths, truancy and drug misuse, all topical and important areas of debate.