Professor Keith Hawton DSc is the recipient of:1995 Stengel Reseach Award by the International Association for Suicide Prevention2001 Dublin Research Award by the American Association for Suicidology2002 Research Award of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

• 1. Introduction and overview ; 2. Factors contributing to suicide: the epidemiological evidence from large-scale registers ; 3. Time trends and geographic differences in suicide: implications for prevention ; 4. Contextual effects in suicidal behaviour: evidence, exploration and implications ; 5. Psychology and suicidal behaviour: elaborating the entrapment model ; 6. Psychobiological approaches to the predisposition to suicidal behaviour: implications for treatment and prevention ; 7. Interplay of genes and environment as contributory factors to suicidal behaviour ; 8. Traumatic stress and suicidal behaviour: an important target for treatment and prevention ; 9. Making mental health services safer ; 10. Risk factors for suicidal behaviour: translating knowledge into practice ; 11. The burden of suicide and clinical suggestions for prevention ; 12. Psychosocial treatments following attempted suicide: evidence to inform clinical practice ; 13. Suicide in older people: determinants of risk and opportunities for prevention ; 14. The resistance of suicide: why have antidepressants not reduced suicide rates? ; 15. Substance use and suicidal behaviour: associations and implications for prevention ; 16. Restriction of access to methods of suicide as a means of suicide prevention ; 17. Media influences on suicidal behaviour: evidence and prevention ; 18. Suicide and suicide attempts in prisons ; 19. Volunteer perspectives on suicide prevention ; 20. Suicide survivorship: an unknown journey from loss to gain - from individual to global perspectives

...an accessible book that will appeal to those working in the field and those with a more casual interest...it is a useful text with important ethical, societal and psychiatric messages.