Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Suicidal Behavior

ROBERT I. YUFIT, PhD, ABPP, is an associate professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago and is also in independent clinical practice where he has focused primarily on the assessment and treatment of suicidal persons for the past three decades. He is a past president of the American Association of Suicidology, and is currently Associate Editor of their journal, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. He has published widely on the assessment of suicide potential.DAVID LESTER, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He has written extensively on both suicide and murder. He was director of research and evaluation at the Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service in Buffalo, New York, and is a past president of the International Association for Suicide Prevention.

• Foreword (Norman L. Farberow). About the Editors.Contributors.1. Introduction (Robert I. Yufit and David Lester).PART ONE: Screening and Assessment.2. Clinical Use of Suicide Assessment Scales: Enhancing Reliability and Validity through the Therapeutic Relationship (James R. Rogers and Kimberly M. Oney).3. Assessment of Suicide: Beck’s Scales for Assessing Mood and Suicidality (Mark A. Reinecke and Rogina L. Franklin-Scott).4. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPI /MMPI-2, MMPI-A) and Suicide (Alan F. Friedman, Robert P. Archer, and Richard W. Handel).5. Rorschach Contributions to Assessment of Suicide Risk (Ronald J. Ganellen).6. Assessing the Vital Balance in Evaluating Suicidal Potential (Robert I. Yufit).PART TWO: Intervention and Treatment of Suicidality.7. The Classic Systems of Psychotherapy and Suicidal Behavior (David Lester).8. Crisis Intervention in the Context of Outpatient Treatment of Suicidal Patients (John Kalafat and Maureen M. Underwood).9. No-Suicide Contracts (Lillian M. Range).10. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with Suicidal Patients (Mark A. Reinecke and Elizabeth R. Didie).11. Voice Therapy: A Treatment for Depression and Suicide (Lisa Firestone).12. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (David Lester).13. The Widening Scope of Family Therapy for the Elderly (Joseph Richman).14. Group Therapy and Suicide (Robert R. Fournier).PART THREE: Special Issues.15. Easing the Legacy of Suicide (David Lester).16. Coping with Suicide in the Schools: The Art and the Research (Antoon A. Leenaars, David Lester, and Susanne Wenckstern).17. Helping College Students Cope with Suicidal Impulses (Morton M. Silverman).18. Suicide Terrorism (Ariel Merari).Author Index.Subject Index.