Hope in Action

<p>Respectful and effective solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) for suicidal clients <br><br>Few tasks are more important—and daunting—than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope. <em>Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide</em> is a unique resource providing fresh approaches to treating individuals and families where suicide is an issue. This comprehensive book provides a thorough grounding in using a solution-focused therapy approach to elicit and reinforce hope and reasons for living. Strategies are demonstrated with stories case vignettes and transcripts. Special applications include some of the most challenging high-risk clients that therapists treat including people who make repeated attempts. This powerful resource offers a set of practice principles based on the existing empirical evidence in the context of clinical utility and client expertise. <br><br><em>Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide</em> provides case transcripts to help in role-play or rehearsal situations as well as numerous practical tips. The book also provides lists of solution-focused questions for use in various situations including suicide crisis the use of anti-depressant medications facilitation of collaborative working relationships with colleagues as well as clients. Each application chapter gives therapists practical hands-on tools and uses stories and illustrations to make the book user-friendly. The text also offers a brief appendix on the basic skills of SFBT. <br><br>Topics discussed in<em> Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide</em> include:</p><ul> <li>current knowledge about preventing suicide at the individual level </li> <li>helping clients to utilize their strengths even when they are in crisis </li> <li>how research in diverse areas supports the solution-focused approach </li> <li>effective treatment for couples and families when one member is suicidal </li> <li>basic approaches to effective therapy with young children and teens who have attempted suicide </li> <li>respectful effective therapy with people who seem to have adopted being suicidal as their primary coping strategy </li> <li>therapeutic tools that help the therapist to stay hopeful about clients and strengthen the therapeutic relationship </li> </ul><p><em>Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide</em> is a valuable resource for counselors and therapists at every experience level.</p>