Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Suicide Research

Suicide remains one of the most pressing public health concerns across the world. Expensive in terms of the human cost and associated suffering, the economic costs, the social costs and the spiritual costs, it affects millions of people every year.

This important reference work collects together a wide range of research around suicide and suicide prevention, in order to guide future research and provide guidance for professionals about the best way to respond meaningfully to suicidal patients. Responding to the need for multi-disciplinary and international research to deepen our understanding of suicide, it demonstrates where our knowledge is firmly evidence-based and where new areas for research are emerging, as well as highlighting where we know little.

Divided into six parts, each with its own editorial introduction and commentary, it explores research with and about survivors of suicide and indigenous populations. The remaining sections look at suicide-focused research in psychiatric nursing, psychiatry, psychology, and social work and allied health. It is of interest to all advanced students, practitioners and scholars interested in suicide and its impact and prevention.

John R. Cutcliffe is Director of Research and Academics at Ontario Shores Mental Health Centre, Canada. He also holds Adjunct Professor of Nursing positions at the University of Ottawa, Canada; the University of Coimbra, Portugal and the University of Malta.

Jose Carlos P. Santos is Adjunct-Professor at the Nursing School of Coimbra, Portugal.

Paul S. Links is Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychiatry at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, and Chief of Psychiatry at the London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, Ontario, Canada.

Juveria Zaheer is a Psychiatrist and Research Fellow at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Henry G. Harder is Professor and Chair of the School of Health Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.

Frank Campbell is the Senior Consultant for Campbell and Associates Consulting, LLC. Dr Campbell is former president of the American Association for Suicide Prevention.

Rod McCormick is Associate Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Kari Harder is an Analyst at Northern Health, Canada.

Yvonne Bergmans is Suicide Intervention Consultant at the Suicide Studies Research Unit, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

Rahel Eynan is an Associate Researcher with the Lawson Health Research Institute at University of Western Ontario, Canada.