If you've found this site on your own, WELCOME! You obviously have an interest in suicide prevention and assessment. Browse the resources below, let me know if you're looking for anything specific.
Blessings!
Andrew Kendrick, MA
Eagles' Wings Counseling
BOOKS:
American Psychiatric Association. (2003). Practice Guideline for the Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Suicidal Behaviors. Arlington (VA): American Psychiatric Association.
Susan Rose Blauner (2003) How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention Harper Paperbacks
Emile Durkheim, George Simpson (Ed), John A. Spaulding (Translator) (1951). Suicide
. New York: Free Press
Thomas Joiner (2010) Myths about Suicide Harvard University Press
David Lester (Ed.). (2001). Suicide Prevention: Resources for the Millennium Philadelphia: Brunner-Routledge.
Ronald W. Maris, Alan L. Berman, Morton M. Silverman (2000). Comprehensive textbook of suicidology. New York: Guilford Press
Edwin S. Shneidman (1980). Voices of Death: Personal Documents From People Facing Death
Harper & Row. 1995 Revision Voices of Death: Letters and Diaries of People Facing Death--Comfort and Guidance for Us All"
Edwin S. Shneidman (2008) A Commonsense Book of Death: Reflections at Ninety of a Lifelong Thanatologist Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Edwin S. Shneidman (1985). Definition of Suicide. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Edwin S. Shneidman, Norman L. Farberow, Robert E. Litman (1994). The Psychology of Suicide New York: Aronson.
Edwin S. Shneidman(1996). The Suicidal Mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
American Association of Suicidology. (1998). Suicide postvention guidelines:
Suggestions for dealing with the aftermath of suicide in the schools. Washington, DC: Author.
Borges, G. (2010) Alcohol and drug use in suicidal behaviour. Current Opinion in
Psychiatry, 23(3), 195.
Brown, G. (2002). A Review of Suicide Assessment Measures for Intervention Research with Adults and Older Adults. Contract 263-MH914950 and R37MH47383 and R01MH60915, National Institute of Mental Health.
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. (2008). Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention: Evidence and Implications—A White Paper. DHHS Pub. No. SMA-08-4352. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Goldston, D. (2000). Assessment of suicidal behaviors and risk among children and
adolescents. Technical report submitted to NIMH under Contract No. 263-MD-909995. Department of Psychiatry, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1087
Huisman, A. (2010), Psychopathology and suicide method in mental health care. Journal of Affective Disorders, 121(1-2), 94.
Hunt IM, Kapur N, Webb R, Robinson J, Burns J, Shaw J, Appleby L. (2008). Suicide in recently discharged psychiatric patients: A case-control study. Psychological Medicine, May 28:1-7
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. (2010). Scientific data, surveillance and injury statistics. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [Available from http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/osp/mortdata.htm.]
Office of Applied Studies. (2009). Results from the 2008 National Survey on Drug Use
and Health: National findings (DHHS Publication No. SMA 09-4434, NSDUH Series H-36). Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Park, B. (2010). Tucson has the third-highest suicide rate in the country. Why is almost nobody talking about this fact? Correspondence, ANZ J Psychiatry, 94, 44(1).
Shneidman, E. S. (1981). The psychological autopsy. Suicide and Life-Threatening
Behavior, 11, 325–340.
Troister T, Links PS, Cutcliffe J. (2008) Review of predictors of suicide within 1 year of discharge from a psychiatric hospital. Current Psychiatry Reports. Feb; 10(1):
60-5.
U.S. Public Health Service. (1999). The Surgeon General’s call to action to prevent
suicide. Washington, DC: Author.
WEBSITES:
http://www.survivorsofsuicide.org/index.html
http://www.suicidology.org
www.samhsa.gov
