Counselling Suicidal Clients [Paperback]

Counselling Suicidal Clients addresses the important professional considerations when working with clients who are suicidal. The 'bigger picture', including legal and ethical considerations and organizational policy and procedures is explored, as is to how practitioners can work with the dynamics of suicide potential in the therapeutic process. The book is divided into six main parts:

• The changing context of suicide
• The prediction-prevention model, policy and ethics
• The influence of the organization
• The client process
• The practitioner process
• The practice of counseling with suicidal clients

Counselling Suicidal Clients addresses the important professional considerations when working with clients who are suicidal. The 'bigger picture', including legal and ethical considerations and organizational policy and procedures is explored, as is to how practitioners can work with the dynamics of suicide potential in the therapeutic process. The book is divided into six main parts:

• The changing context of suicide
• The prediction-prevention model, policy and ethics
• The influence of the organization
• The client process
• The practitioner process
• The practice of counseling with suicidal clients

balance between scholarship, original research, clinical insight, practical

application and an evident compassion for those in such need' -
European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling