Critical Suicidology: Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century

Synopsis

Globally, Suicides Account For A Significant Number Of Premature Deaths Every Year. Traditional Approaches To Research And Prevention Are Not Working For Everyone, But Why Is This? And What Can Be Done About It? In Critical Suicidology, A Team Of International Scholars, Practitioners, And People Directly Affected By Suicide Argue That Mainstream Research Models Obscure The Social, Political, And Historical Contexts That Contribute To Human Suffering. Combining Personal Experience With Theoretical Insights, This Rich Volume Challenges The Current Orthodoxy Governing Suicide Prevention In The West. Going Beyond Critique, It Proposes Alternative Approaches That Are Creative, Socially Just, And Culturally Responsive. This Book Is A Must-read For Practitioners, Policy Makers, And Researchers Working In Mental Health Services And Related Disciplines And For Anyone Who Wants To Make Suicide Prevention Not Simply A Goal But An Achievement. -- Back Cover. Critiquing Contemporary Suicidology / Jan Marsh -- A Critical Look At Current Suicide Research / Heidi Hjekmeland -- Exploring Possibilities For Indigenous Suicide Prevention : Responding To Cultural Understandings And Practices / Lisa M. Wexler And Joseph P. Gone -- Risky Bodies : Making Suicide Knowable Among Youth / Jonathan Morris -- Speaking Of Suicide As A Gendered Problematic : Suicide Attempts And Recovery Within Women's Narratives Of Depression / Simone Fullagar And Wendy O'brien -- Being More Than Just Your Final Act : Elevating The Multiple Storylines Of Suicide With Narrative Practices / Marnie Sather And David Newman -- When Despair And Hope Meet The Stigma Of Manipulation And Ambivalence / Yvonne Bergmans And Others] -- No Regrets / Andrew Rowe -- Hate Kills : A Social Justice Response To Suicide / Vikki Reynolds -- Queer Youth Suicide : Discourses Of Difference, Framing Suicidality, And The Regimentation Of Identity / Rob Cover -- Understanding The Unfathomable In Suicide : Poetry, Absence, And The Corporeal Body / Katrina Jaworski And Daniel G. Scott -- Indigenous Best Practices : Community-based Suicide Prevention In Nunavit, Canada / Michael J. Kral And Lori Idlout -- Reimagining Youth Suicide Prevention / Jennifer White. Edited By Jennifer White, Ian Marsh, Michael J. Kral, And Jonathan Morris. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.