Suicide prevention : Stahl's handbooks / Christine Yu Moutier, Chief Medical Officer, The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Anthony R. Pisani, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, Stephen M. Stahl
"The current scientifically informed view of suicide is that, while complex, suicide is a health-related outcome. Driven by a convergence of health factors along with other psychosocial and environmental factors, suicide risk is multi-factorial. Like most health outcomes, a set of genetic, environmental, and psychological/behavioral factors are relevant. It's critically important that health professionals develop a current understanding of suicide as older views have permeated and clouded societal understanding leading to assumptions and judgment that have silenced generations of people suffering suicidal struggles or loss of a loved one to suicide"-- Provided by publisher
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