This book includes the following chapters: how to use this book; the book’s style & purpose; defining suicide & self-harm; current service provision: risk assessment, management & medication; other approaches to helping the suicidal; what is solution focused brief therapy?; suicide encounters: the crucial first ten minutes; the solution focused approach in working with the suicidal; case study: Reg & ‘the demons from the deep’; some more case vignettes; & where do we go from here? An appendix provides a flow diagram for an episode of treatment.