Main description:

Charged with updating the preeminent text on suicide, the new editors of The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Suicide Risk Assessment and Management opted not to simply revise existing chapters, but instead to steer a bold course, expanding, reconfiguring, and remaking the third edition to reflect the latest research, nomenclature, and clinical innovations. The editorial team and contributors-two-thirds of whom are new to this edition-have taken the intersection of suicide with both mental health and psychosocial issues as their organizing principle, exploring risk assessment and epidemiology in special populations, such as elderly patients, college students, military personnel, and the incarcerated as well as patients with a variety of psychological disorders, including bipolar spectrum, personality, depressive, anxiety, posttraumatic stress, and other disorders and schizophrenia. In addition, the book discusses treatment options (such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and pharmacotherapy) and settings (such as emergency services, outpatient, inpatient, and civil commitment) in detail, with clinical cases to contextualize the material.

The new and revised content is extensive:

* A chapter on the influence of sleep and sleep disorders on suicide risk has been included that considers possible mechanisms for this link and discusses practical ways of assessing and managing sleep disorders to mitigate suicide risk.
* Nonsuicidal self-injury, the prevalence of which is particularly high among youth, is addressed in detail, differentiating it from and comparing it to suicide attempts, discussing risk assessment, considering safety interventions, examining treatment options, and exploring suicide contagion.
* No text on suicide would be complete without a serious exploration of the role of social media and the internet. The book presents an update on current research as it pertains to social networking and behavior, information access, and artificial intelligence and software, and includes suggestions for clinicians treating patients at risk for suicide.
* Physician-assisted dying (PAD), also referred to as "aid-in-dying," is arguably a form of suicide, and the book includes a thoughtful chapter considering the ethical and practical implications of PAD, the murky professional and legal obligations that may arise, the demographics of these patients, the settings and conditions under which PAD may occur, and the role of the attendant clinicians.
* A number of pedagogical features are included to help the reader learn and remember the material, including key clinical concepts and abundant case examples.

Its diverse range of perspectives, broad relevance to a wide variety of clinicians, and absolutely authoritative coverage makes this new edition of The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Suicide Risk Assessment and Management a worthy and indispensable successor.

Contents:

Part I. Suicide Risk Assessment and Treatment

Chapter 1. Suicide Risk Assessment
Chapter 2. Pharmacotherapy and Neuromodulation
Chapter 3. Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy
Chapter 4. Psychodynamic Treatment
Chapter 5. Split Treatment: The Psychiatrist's Role
Chapter 6. Cultural Humility and Structural Competence in Suicide Risk Assessment

Part II. Major Mental Disorders

Chapter 7. Depressive Disorders
Chapter 8. Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Chapter 9. Substance-Related Disorders
Chapter 10. Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
Chapter 11. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
Chapter 12. Personality Disorders
Chapter 13. Sleep and Suicide

Part III. Treatment Settings

Chapter 14. Emergency Services
Chapter 15. Outpatient Treatment of the Suicidal Patient
Chapter 16. Inpatient Treatment
Chapter 17. Civil Commitment

Part IV. Special Populations

Chapter 18. Children and Adolescents
Chapter 19. College and University Students
Chapter 20. Suicide in the Elderly Population
Chapter 21. Jails and Prisons
Chapter 22. Military Personnel and Veterans
Chapter 23. Suicide and Gender
Chapter 24. Self-Injurious Behavior

Part V. Special Topics

Chapter 25. Social Media and the Internet
Chapter 26. Physician-Assisted Dying
Chapter 27. Suicide Risk Management: Mitigating Professional Liability
Chapter 28. The Psychological Autopsy and Retrospective Evaluation of Suicidal Intent

Part VI. Prevention

Chapter 29. Suicide and Firearms
Chapter 30. Suicide Prevention Programs
Chapter 31. Teaching Suicide Risk Assessment in Psychiatric Residency Training

Part VII. Aftermath of Suicide

Chapter 32. Psychiatrist Reactions to Patient Suicide and the Clinician's Role
Index