Product Description
This manual provides an empirically supported treatment approach for suicidality that is specifically tailored to today's managed care environment. The authors present an innovative framework to help the clinician rapidly determine and accomplish essential treatment goals, taking into account the severity, chronicity, and diagnostic complexity of the patient's symptoms. Carefully structured, yet flexible enough for the realities of day-to-day practice, the treatment model offers guidance on treating all aspects of suicidal behavior. It is fully compatible with current standards of care and uniquely designed for maximum effectiveness in the time-limited setting.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 1.0 based on 1 review)

Authors are extremely verbose

These authors wrote as if they were paid by the number of words. The gist of the book is that suicidal patients should be treated with Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Change a few words here and there and the book could be CBT treatment for just about any Axis I diagnosis. They spend a lot of time reviewing literature on CBT. They repeat the same ideas over and over again throughout the book. What little they had of substance on suicidal behavior would be best presented in a small pamphlet rather than a book. The book also seems to assume that the client is high functioning, and articulate. In my opinion, this book is written to impress rather than inform. I bought the book because David Barlow is listed as the editor. I am greatly surprised that David H. Barlow would allow his name to appear on such a poorly written book.
January 16, 2006

SIMILAR PRODUCTS

Managing Suicidal Risk: A Collaborative Approach
by David A. Jobes
by Edwin S. Shneidman

The Assessment And Management of Suicidality (Practitioner's Resource) (Practitioner's Resource)
by M. David Rudd

Essential Skills in Family Therapy: From the First Interview to Termination
by JoEllen Patterson, Lee Williams, Claudia Grauf-Grounds, Larry Chamow

The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships
by Michael Nichols

Family Therapy in Clinical Practice
by Murray Bowen