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Cultural Diversity and Suicide - Ethnic, Religious, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Cultural Diversity and Suicide - Ethnic, Religious, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Perspectives (Hardcover)
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This book adds a vital and overlooked dimensiondiversityto suicide
assessments and interventions The literature on the relationship
between culture and suicide has historically been widely scattered
and often difficult to find. Cultural Diversity and Suicide
summarizes that widespread literature so that counselors can begin
to include diversity issues as important variables that can help
them become even more effective when conducting suicide assessments
or interventions. For ease of reading, Cultural Diversity and
Suicide is divided into chapters based on ethnicity. The book
avoids broad generalizations whenever possible, thus each chapter
specifically discusses critical within-group variables (issues
relating to gender, age, religion, and sexuality) that should be
considered when conducting suicide assessments and interventions.
Each chapter includes at least one case study and incorporates
clear headings that make it simple to find specific information.
Cultural Diversity and Suicide is not a book of cookie-cutter
approaches to suicide prevention, nor is it a primer for the
novice. Rather, it has been carefully designed to help counselors
and counselors-in-training gain a fuller understanding of the
issues that may lead individuals from diverse backgrounds to
consider suicideand the cultural aspects of an individual's
heritage that can influence that person's decision. Written for
professionals who have a pre-existing understanding of how to work
with suicidal clients, the book begins with a concise but essential
overview of traditional suicide risk factors and a brief assessment
model (an excellent memory refresher), and then moves quickly into
specific diversity issues relevant to: European Americans African
Americans Asian Americans Hispanic Americans Native Americans
Cultural Diversity and Suicide explores ethnicity and its
relationship to suicide (for example, suicide rate and reason
differences based on ethnic group or ethnic identity), plus
meaningful within-group variables such as: lesbian/gay/bisexual
issues and the increase in suicide rate based on sexual orientation
and sexual identity religious differencessuicide rates among
various religious groups, religious differences in views of
suicide, views of the afterlife, burial practices, and views of
lesbian/gay/bisexual people cultural buffers, such as extended
family and religious practice suicide prevention interventions
based on cultural differences (essentially, how traditional suicide
prevention programs can be altered to include new variables) This
book is essential reading for everyone doing the vital work of
conducting suicide assessments and interventions. Please consider
making it part of your professional/teaching collection today.
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