Suicide: An Essential Guide for Helping Professionals and Educators

Suicide: An Essential Guide for Helping Professionals and Educators Darcy Haag Granello,The Ohio State University Paul F. Granello,The Ohio State University ISBN: 0205386733 Suicide: An Essential Guide for Helping Professionals and Educatorsencapsulates literature on suicide into digestible chunks, offering both research-based information and practical skills. This new book is an ideal resource for graduate students in all helping professions and in education, as well as for practicing clinicians and K-12 educators. "I found this to be a most helpful and well-written text. … It is rich with material that can be of help in understanding and treating suicide and its many victims." -Frieda Farfour Brown, Ph.D., Gardner Webb University "[This book] will be recommended because of the coverage of the entire life span in one book and because of the specific coverage of often little known facts about each age group and population at-risk. The text will be a very good resource for students to compare and contrast different populations and risk-groups." -Diane Mirabito, DSW, New York University, Ehrenkranz School of Social Work Features Include: Use ofcase examplesandstudiesthroughout. Afull chapter on assessmentprovides solid practical information on a skill not often taught to pre-service helpers. Clinicians and students can find and useInternet and published resourcesthroughout. [ MyHelpingLab Ad ]Darcy Granello is the author of 'Suicide: An Essential Guide for Helping Professionals and Educators', published 2006 under ISBN 9780205386734 and ISBN 0205386733.