Counselling Suicidal Client

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Contextual Aspects of Working with Suicide Risk ........1 Suicide and Counselling : An introduction ......3 Historical Perspectives on Suicide and Emergence of the Medical Model.........15 suicide trends and statistics..........21 2. The prediction -Prevention model, Policy and Ethics..........29 Suicide risk factors and assessment .................31 The influence of Policy and the prediction -prevention culture...........44 The Ethical Imperative of Suicide.....53 Confidentiality, Capacity and Consent .............60 3. Organizations................73 Counselling suicidal Client in Organizational Settings..........75 Developing Procedures and Guidance ........83 4. The client process................89 Understanding suicide............91 The use of Language in Counselling suicidal Clients....99 From self- murder to self- Support ..........108 Suicide and Self-injury: Annihilation and survival ...............115 5. The counsellors process.......125 The counsellor and suicide risk : Personal perspectives and professional Actions ....127 Potential Dangers and Difficulties.......134 6. Aspects of Counselling with suicide clients .............141 Tightropes and Safety nets: supporting practice...........143 Good Practice for self-support .........150 Training implications for Counselling ............156 7. Conclusions.......163 Concluding Thoughts.....................165