Attempted Suicide: A Practical Guide to Its Nature and ManagementHere is a highly practical guide for all professionals who encounter the medical and social problems created by attempted suicide. Based on the authors' extensive clinical and research experience, the book examines ways to help people following an attempted suicide, as well as how best to handle the distress of relatives and friends. It presents up-to-date information on changing suicide patterns and suggests possible links between these changes, unemployment, and other social factors. |
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The circumstances surrounding attempted suicide | 26 |
Assessment of patients after deliberate selfpoisoning or | 55 |
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| Title | Attempted Suicide: A Practical Guide to Its Nature and Management Oxford medical publications |
| Authors | Keith Hawton, José Catalán |
| Edition | 2, illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1987 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Aug 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192615963, 9780192615961 |
| Length | 211 pages |
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