Brings together the evidence concerning the key elements in suicide prevention and treatment of suicidal behaviour, and translates it into implications for practical action. This book is useful for those concerned with the design and implementation of effective suicide prevention strategies, including clinicians, and strategic policy makers.

The range of initiatives covered is wide, reflecting the complex nature of suicide and hence the need for a range of approaches. This book will be an essential source for anyone concerned with the design and implementation of effective suicide prevention strategies, including clinicians working with individual patients, strategic policy makers, and researchers.

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