Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide

Few tasks are more important-and daunting-than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope. Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide is a unique resource providing fresh approaches to treating individuals and families where suicide is an issue. This comprehensive book provides a thorough grounding in using a solution-focused therapy approach to elicit and reinforce hope and reasons for living. Strategies are demonstrated with stories, case vignettes, and transcripts. Special applications include some of the most challenging high-risk clients that therapists treat, including people who make repeated attempts. This powerful resource offers a set of practice principles based on the existing empirical evidence in the context of clinical utility and client expertise.

Author: Heather Fiske
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/28/2008
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.87h x 6.05w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780789033949