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What Does Everybody Else Know That I Don't?: Social Skills Help for Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD): A Reader-Friendly Gu
by Michele Novotni  Publisher Comments Focusing on social skills training for adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders (AD/HD), this book offers solutions for tackling behavior that is often inattentive, impulsive, and hyperactive. Advice is given on how to handle common social...
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On Suicide (Penguin Classics)
by Emile Durkheim Synopsis The landmark investigation into suicide and societyanow in a new translation Amile Durkheim, one of the fathers of modern sociology, was the first to suggest that suicide might be as much a response to society as an act of individual despair. When he...
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Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
by Kay Redfield Jamison Publisher Comments From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common...
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How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying To Kill Me
by Susan Rose Blauner Publisher Comments The statistics on suicide are staggering. According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in 1997 in the USA more teenagers and young adults died from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia...
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Suicide and the Inner Voice: Risk Assessment, Treatment, and Case Management
by Robert W. Firestone Publisher Comments Text on understanding how negative internal conversations affect individuals and how professionals can better assess risk and design treatment for depressed and suicidal patients....
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Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Sucide for the Dying
by Derek Humphry Publisher Comments As the legal controversy continues--this newly revised and updated third edition of the landmark bestseller contains new, critically important information for patients, loved ones, and medical personnel. The original publication of Final Exit stunned the...
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Why People Die by Suicide
by Thomas Joiner Publisher Comments Drawing on extensive clinical and epidemiological evidence, as well aspersonal experience, Thomas Joiner provides the most coherent and persuasive explanation evergiven of why and how people overcome life's strongest instinct, self-preservation. He tests...
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Assessment and Prediction of Suicide
by Ronald W Maris Publisher Comments Suicide, currently the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, represents an enormous challenge to health care professionals. Bridging the gap between clinical work and scientific research, this book provides help for those who are at risk...
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Leaving You: The Cultural Meaning of Suicide
by Lisa J. Lieberman Publisher Comments At heart, suicide is a subversive act. How is it, then, that the act of suicide has come to be viewed as the last refuge of the self-destructive victim? The author explores the puzzle of this reigning perception of suicide....
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by Ted, Jr. Tilton Synopsis I know I have done what I can do to understand and alleviate the pain that rolls around and takes people's lives through the epidemic of suicide. I will die in a more peaceful state because of this. I am also confident this book can heal major depression...
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Cognition and Suicide: Theory, Research, and Therapy
by Thomas E. (edt) Ellis Synopsis Although substantial resources have been expended on suicide research and prevention, suicide science remains in its infancy. This book brings together an impressive cast to bridge the gap between cognitive research and cognitive-behavioral practice...
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Assisted Suicide: A Decision-Making Guide for Health Professionals
by Stephen Jamison Publisher Comments How should you respond when your patient asks for aid in dying? This groundbreaking book is a much needed guide to the difficult and complex issue of assisted dying. Written with compassion and understanding, this is the first work to offer physicians...
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Sleepless Souls: Suicide in Early Modern England (Oxford Studies in Social History)
by Michael Macdonald Publisher Comments Suicide was regarded as a deplorable act, subject to savage punishments, in Tudor and Stuart England. In Georgian England it was de-criminalized, tolerated, and even sentimentalized. Drawing on a wide variety of contemporary sources, Sleepless Souls...
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Wanting to Live: Overcoming the Seduction of Suicide
by Neroli Duffy Synopsis A medical doctor and clinical psychologist examine the spiritual perspective of suicide....
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The Inner World of a Suicidal Youth: What Every Parent and Health Professional Should Know
by Millie, M.d. Osborne Publisher Comments A suicidal girl's diary, discovered after her death, gives gripping insight into why her self-esteem andwill to live eroded, how she became a "pretender" to evade help, and - with narrative and comments from a psychiatrist included in this book - shows...
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Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative
by T. C. Pellmar Synopsis Every year, about 30,000 people die by suicide in the United States, and some 650,000 receive emergency treatment after a suicide attempt. Often, those most at risk are the least able to access professional help. Reducing Suicide provides a blueprint for...
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Parasuicidality & Paradox: Breaking Through the Medical Model
by Ross D., Ph.d. Ellenhorn Publisher Comments Ross Ellenhorn brings a fresh, new look at what has been called parasuicidality. Rather seeing it solely as a medicalized symptom of mental disorder, he incisively shows how threats of suicide emerge from the social context and can be better understood...
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Coping with Teen Suicide (Coping)
by James M. Murphy Synopsis Accelerated Reader is a program based on the fact that students become more motivated to read if they are tested on the content of the books they have read and are rewarded for correct answers. Students read each book, individually take the test on the...
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Suicidal Behaviour: A Search for Its Psychic Economy
by Jurgen Kind Synopsis Analyzes various motivations for suicide from a psychoanalytical perspective and looks at the therapist's countertransference reactions to a suicidal patient. Therapeutic strategies for dealing with threatened or actual suicide are evaluated within the...
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I'm in the Tub, Gone
by Richard Carlson Publisher Comments We now live in a time of comfort, convenience and opportunity such as mankind has never known. With all the great things we are provided, we also get many side effects that some thrive on and others do not welcome. Some of these are expectations, added...
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