| Description |
1 online resource (394 pages) |
| Series |
Complex trauma, terrorism & grief: clinical interventions for police, military & public safety professionals series |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE Nomothetic Study; CHAPTER 1 Suicide; CHAPTER 2 The Many Faces of Death: Homicide, Homicide-Suicide, Self-Harm, and Accidents; PART TWO Methods; CHAPTER 3 The Nomothetic and Idiographic Approaches; CHAPTER 4 The Psychological Autopsy; CHAPTER 5 A Conversation with Edwin S. Shneidman on Suicide and the PA; CHAPTER 6 Problems with the PA; CHAPTER 7 How Many Informants are Needed?; CHAPTER 8 Benefits for Informants; PART THREE Idiographic Study; CHAPTER 9 A PA: A Barren Bones Investigation |
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CHAPTER 10 Documents in the CourtroomCHAPTER 11 The PA in the Courtroom; PART FOUR Discussion; CHAPTER 12 What I Have Learned; CHAPTER 13 Final Forgetting; References; Index |
| Summary |
The best way to grasp the essence of death scene investigation (DSI) is to witness its application, called the psychological autopsy, by an expert forensic scientist/clinician. This remarkable book affords the opportunity to delve into the challenges that the forensic mental health specialist and public safety professional confront in DSI. The best way to grasp the essence of death scene investigation (DSI) is to witness its application, called the psychological autopsy, by an expert forensic scientist/clinician. This remarkable book affords the opportunity to delve into the challenges that the forensic mental health specialist and public safety professional confront in DSI. Suicides, and often death, are complex, multidetermined events. People, whether police investigator or mental health professional, are generally perplexed, and even confused, when they are confronted by the equivocal case. Was it a suicide? Homicide? Accident? These are critical questions. Dr. Leenaars shows that DSI is, however, not mysterious; the reader can learn the generally accepted, evidence-based protocols of the psychological autopsy. Illuminated by individual (idiographic) case studies and general (nomothetic) research, this definitive guide allows the investigator to uncover the bare bones of a suicide or death |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Psychological autopsy.
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Suicide.
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Suicide victims -- Psychology
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Suicide -- psychology
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Suicide
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suicides.
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Psychological autopsy
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Suicide
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Suicide victims -- Psychology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351969475 |
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1351969471 |
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