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Rethinking Suicide - Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Suicide - Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better (Hardcover)
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An examination of how suicide prevention efforts largely fail due
to the mistaken assumption that greater mental health awareness is
the key to saving lives. Over the last two decades, the US suicide
rate has steadily grown despite extensive awareness campaigns, wide
implementation of suicide prevention programs and initiatives, and
increased mental health advocacy. To the confusion and frustration
of researchers, healthcare providers, and many others, these
efforts have largely failed to reverse the trend. Why do suicide
rates continue to climb despite our best efforts? Why aren't we
better at this? What are we doing wrong? Rethinking Suicide is a
critical examination of what we think we know about suicide, with
particular focus on the assumed role of mental illness. Craig J.
Bryan, a leading expert on suicide prevention, argues that most
prevention efforts have failed because they disproportionately
emphasize mental health-focused solutions such as access to
treatment and crisis services. Instead of classifying suicide as a
mental health issue, careful analysis of research findings suggest
it should instead be seen as a highly complex problem with many
risk factors - from personal decision-making styles, to the
availability of lethal means, to financial uncertainty. As such
suicide rates will not be curtailed by conventional
solution-oriented thinking; rather, we need process-based thinking
that may, in some cases, defy or contradict many of our long-held
assumptions about suicide. Rethinking Suicide interweaves the
author's firsthand experiences with explanations of scientific
findings to reveal the limitations of widely-used practices and to
introduce new perspectives that may trigger a paradigm shift in how
we understand and prevent suicide.
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