[...]...viii 8  9  10  11  12  13  14  Contents Crisis Intervention in the Context of Outpatient Treatment of Suicidal Patients 16 3 John Kalafat and Maureen M Underwood No-Suicide Contracts Lillian M Range 18 1 Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with Suicidal Patients Mark A Reinecke and Elizabeth R Didie 205 Voice Therapy: A Treatment for Depression and Suicide Lisa Firestone Dialectical Behavior Therapy... MacInnes, 19 81 Holmes & Howard, 19 80 Domino et al., 19 82 Dean et al., 19 67 a ,b,c Cull & Gill, 19 82 Plutchik et al., 19 89 Suicide Status Form (SSF) c Jobes et al., 19 97 a Notes: Scales reviewed by: Rothberg and Geer-Williams 19 92; bRange and Knott, 19 97; cWestefeld et al., 2000 Range and Knott Range and Knott (19 97) published a review of 20 suicide assessment instruments, classified as (1) clinician-rated,... and ease of administration The instruments recommended by Range and Knott included the various forms of the Scale for Suicide Ideation (Beck, Kovacs, & Weissman, 19 79), the Reasons for Living Inventory 12 Screening and Assessment (Linehan, Goodstein, Nielsen, & Chiles, 19 83), and the four-item version of Linehan’s (19 81) Suicide Behavior Questionnaire (Cole, 19 88) Westefeld and Colleagues As part of. .. scores and the validity (i.e., meaningfulness, appropriateness, and usefulness) of the interpretations of those scores vis-à-vis suicidal behavior (Jobes et al., 19 95; Maris, 19 92; Rothberg & Geer-Williams, 19 92) Conspicuously missing from these discussions, however, has been a consideration of the impact of the relational context of assessment on the psychometric characteristics of reliability and validity... Scale (SRS) Orbach et al., 19 91 b,c b,c Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire (SBQ) Lettieri, 19 74 Reynolds, 19 87 Rudd, 19 89 b,c Linehan, 19 81 Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire for Children (SBQ-C) b Cotton & Range, 19 93 Suicide Intent Scale aka Suicidal Intent Scale (SNS) a ,b Beck, Schuyler, et al., 19 74 Clinical Use of Suicide Assessment Scales Table 2 .1 11 Continued Title of Measure Original Citation Suicide... 19 68 Scale for Predicting Suicidal Behavior (SPSB) Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI ) a b,c b a Beck et al., 19 88 Pallis et al., 19 82 Suicidal Death Prediction Scale, Long (SDPS-L) and Short Forms (SDPS-S) a Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire (SIQ) Suicidal Ideation Scale (SIS) Buglas & Horton, 19 74 Beck et al., 19 79 Self-Rated Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI-SR) Short Risk Scale (SRS) Orbach et al., 19 91. .. view of the major areas of assessment, treatment, and prevention in suicide prevention since its beginnings in the 19 50s reveals an uneven development, with studies of treatment of the suicidal individual at first lagging behind the studies of assessment Within the area of treatment itself, activity was unequal with the majority of the studies focusing on the critical area of crisis response and management... Medical School and in private practice, focusing primarily on the assessment and treatment of suicidal individuals He is past-president of the American Association of Suicidology He is associate editor of the journal, Suicide and LifeThreatening Behavior, as well as co-founder of the Illinois Association of Suicidology David Lester, PhD, is professor of Psychology at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey... years, as studies multiplied and information about the vagaries of suicide increased, its complexity and its multidimensional aspects became more and more apparent Treatment had to expand to include chronic and long-term suicidal behavior, direct and indirect suicidal behavior, intentional planned and impulsive unplanned behavior, and so on It became apparent that no one theory and no one therapy could... special treat in an 18 -course intellectual dinner, there is a thoughtful, considered report on the re-emergence of suicide as a weapon of terrorism This book provides an invaluable update on the current status of assessment, treatment, and prevention of suicidal behavior NORMAN L FARBEROW, PHD About the Editors Robert I Yufit, PhD, ABPP, is associate professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at the . Page iii ASSESSMENT, TREATMENT, AND PREVENTION OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR ffirs.qxd 8/2/04 12 :11 PM Page i ffirs.qxd 8/2/04 12 :11 PM Page ii ASSESSMENT, TREATMENT, AND PREVENTION OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR Edited. alt="" ASSESSMENT, TREATMENT, AND PREVENTION OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR Edited by ROBERT I. YUFIT and DAVID LESTER John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ffirs.qxd 8/2/04 12 :11 PM Page iii ffirs.qxd 8/2/04 12 :11 PM. references and index. ISBN 0-4 7 1- 2 726 4-7 (cloth) 1. Suicidal behavior Diagnosis 2. Suicidal behavior Treatment. 3. Suicide Prevention. I. Yufit, Robert I., 19 30– II. Lester, David, 19 42– RC569.A.776