Titlebook: Lifelines; Clinical Perspective Ellen L. Bassuk,Stephen C. Schoonover,Andrew D. Gi Book 1982 Springer Science+Business Media New York 1982

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The Role of the Social Worker. The social worker’s role in the care of the suicidal patient illustrates this confusion. Each year approximately 27,940 people in the United States will complete suicide.. At least eight times that number will attempt suicide. In the clinical social work subspecialties such as family service, comm

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Suicidal Patients and the Therapist-in- Trainingal may complicate the young therapist’s development. The trainee may feel the need to be immediately proficient in the development of various skills, including evaluation techniques, knowledge of predictors of risk, crisis intervention, and long-term psychotherapy. At the same time, he must struggle

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n to therapists that puts clinical judgment to the ultimate test. It arouses countertransference reactions of unusual intensity-helplessness and guilt when the suicide is successful; anxiety and anger when it is used as a manipulative tool. For as Samuel Johnson was aware when he com­ mented that ma

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Intensive Care for Suicidal Patientsoach toward the intensive interventions with the suicidal individual which takes into account both the characteristics of the patient and the care settings. The entire range of closely supervised treatment modalities is described with a particular focus on the methods employed in an inpatient milieu.

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General Principles of Assessmento suicide nor do they reveal their self-destructive intent. Thus, the evaluator should elicit information from all patients about suicidal thoughts and preoccupations and should be alert to indicators of increased risk.

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Nursing Issues thoughts and behaviors and responds by formulating an appropriate treatment plan. This chapter focuses on the roles and clinical responsibilities of the primary nurse in the management of the suicidal patient.

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Outpatient Therapies for Suicidal Patientsnd-the-clock patient observation. The time he spends with his patient represents a tiny fraction of the patient’s day-to-day life. The rest of the time the patient is left to his own devices, unsupervised and unprotected, alone with his thoughts and feelings.