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The Practical Art of Suicide Assessment: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals and Substance Abuse Counselors [Hardcover]

Shawn Christopher Shea (Author)
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0471183636 978-0471183631 August 30, 1999 1
Critical Acclaim for The Practical Art of Suicide Assessment

"There is . . . no better guide for learning about and clinically assessing the phenomenology of suicidal states. Penned with a compelling elegance and charm, The Practical Art of Suicide Assessment is brimming with clinical wisdom, enlightening case illustrations, and a vibrant sense of compassion."-David A. Jobes, PhD, past president, American Association of Suicidology

"If I were asked to recommend only one book to equip clinicians to conduct the best possible suicide risk assessments, The Practical Art of Suicide Assessment would be it."-Thomas E. Ellis, PsyD, ABPP, past director, Clinical Division of the American Association of Suicidology

"A concise, carefully conceptualized, well-written book . . . highly recommended for all psychiatric residents and all other mental health students."-Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

"This outstanding book is informative, interesting, and clinically useful."-American Journal of Psychiatry

The Practical Art of Suicide Assessment covers all the critical elements of suicide assessment-from risk factor analysis to evaluating clients with borderline personality disorders or psychotic process. This highly acclaimed text provides mental health professionals with the tools they need to assess a client's suicide risk and assign appropriate levels of care using the highly acclaimed interview strategy for eliciting suicidal ideation-the Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events (the CASE Approach).

Now available in paperback, the leading book on suicide assessment also contains three important new appendices:
* How to Document a Suicide Assessment
* Safety Contracting Revisited: Pros, Cons, and Documentation
* A Quick Guide to Suicide Prevention Web Sites

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"Shea's approach to suicide risk assessment is at once elegant in its simplicity and comprehensive in its scope and depth." (Preventing Suicide, 3/1/2004)

"This book is, to date, one of the most helpful and well-written works about the in-depth evaluation of suicidal patients." (The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Volume 191, Number 10, October 2003)



". . . remarkably concise and valuable body of information for clinicians at any level in any specialty." --Counselor: The Magazine for Addiction Professionals

"This outstanding book is informative, interesting, and clinically useful. . . . It will be meaningful and helpful to experienced practitioners, residents, other mental health clinicians, and students." --American Journal of Psychiatry

"In this highly readable, engaging volume, Dr. Shea makes the process of discovering suicidality come alive. Even if you are not directly involved in suicide risk assessment, this is a very worthwhile read. If you are directly involved, this is a must read." --School Psychology Resources Online

". . . a concise, carefully conceptualized, well-written book . . . highly recommended for all psychiatric residents and all other mental health students. Their teachers, as well, will profit greatly by reading it." --Journal of Clinical Psychiatry --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

SHAWN CHRISTOPHER SHEA, MD, is a nationally acclaimed workshop leader and educational innovator in the field of the initial diagnostic interview. He is the author of the bestselling text Psychiatric Interviewing: The Art of Understanding, Second Edition. Dr. Shea has received an Outstanding Course Award from the American Psychiatric Association for his presentations at its annual meetings and has presented at both the Cape Cod Symposia and the Santa Fe Symposia. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, and is also in private practice.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 30, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471183636
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471183631
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,879,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A REAL "Must-Read" for All Clinicians, June 16, 2000
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Monica J. Indart, Psy.D (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Practical Art of Suicide Assessment: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals and Substance Abuse Counselors (Hardcover)
Shawn Shea's The Practical Art of Suicide Assessment: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals and Substance Abuse Counselors is one of the most valuable professional texts I have read in the past decade. The book combines scholarship, practical guidelines and a literary quality that renders it a truly exceptional book in the field. I found the case examples used to illustrate clinical problems invaluable; these vignettes bring the theoretical material "alive" in a way that encourages clinicians from various disciplines and theoretical orientations to meaningfully incorporate the concepts. Shea elucidates such critical issues as risk factors and risk predictors in such a way as to make constructs that are often reifed once again meaningful. As part of my professional responsibilities, I am responsible for training/teaching mental health emergency clinicians aspects of clinical interviewing and suicide assessment. I have incorporated many of the principles in this book into these trainings. The CASE approach to suicidal assessment is perhaps the best approach to this complex task that I have found. The discussion on "contracting for safety/no suicide contracts" is relevant, congruent with current ethical and legal principles, and reflects the difficult reality of working with suicidal patients. I regularly recommend both this book and Shea's book on psychiatric interviewing to participants in the workshops.

In summary, I highly recommend this text for clinicians from all disciplines and at all phases of professional development. It is a rich text, full of clinical wisdom and scholarship, that both the novice and the seasoned clinician will find themselves reaching for repeatedly. Perhaps the best assessment of the book is the fact that I've tried to keep it on my bookshelf, but it keeps getting borrowed by my colleagues. I've resolved the problem by keeping a separate copy at home. THAT constitutes a valuable book!

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Seminal Text of Suicide Assessment, December 10, 2001
This review is from: The Practical Art of Suicide Assessment: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals and Substance Abuse Counselors (Hardcover)
There are many books on suicidology and even on clinical interviewing, but none combine the two topics in such an effective and practical manner.

Dr. Shea's book, the second edition to his previous edition, is an excellent tool for any practicing clinician or student. He provides a method of assessment that is quick and efficient without being superficial.

Working in a federal penitentiary, suicide assessments are an important part of my work. I rely on Dr. Shea's assessment techniques on a regular basis because they allow for quick, triage assessments.

I can't recommend a book more highly!

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written and easy reading, April 6, 2004
I'm currently in school for addiction counseling and felt this book would be good to read. It is well written and easy to read, with a lot of good advice. As a counselor in preparation I know I will be having sessions with people who are experiencing suicidal ideation, & while I know this doesn't qualify a person to do suicide assessments it certainly gives a good method for drawing out as much information as possible. It makes me feel a little more comfortable about the job I am going to be doing.
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THIS EXPLORATION of suicide began on a Sunday in a most unlikely place: a drafty old bookshop on the outskirts of a small town in southern New Hampshire. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
safety contracting, eliciting suicidal ideation, gentle assumption, acute dangerousness, recent suicidal ideation, symptom amplification, biologic depression, suicidal planning, crisis clinician, behavioral incident, corroborative sources, chotic process, suicide assessment, good clinical care, suicide events, chronological assessment, objective database, psychiatric interviewing, imminent suicide, sound documentation, other street drugs, command hallucinations, validity techniques, suicidal crisis, suicide talk
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Mary Beth, New York, Kurt Cobain, Elizabeth Siddal, Anne Sexton, Saunders Company, Secondary Database, Sylvia Plath, American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Annals, United States, Case Management, Principles of Assessment, Bruno Bettelheim, New Hampshire, Oscar Wilde, Psychiatric Press, Aaron Beck, Guilford Press, Primary Psychiatry, The Morning Stop
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