Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780789033932)

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
ISBN-10: 0789033933
ISBN-13: 9780789033932
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 05/28/2008
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.35w x 0.98d