Oxford Textbook of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention: a Global Perspective

This edited volume has 15 parts including: suicide in a religious & cross-cultural perspective; the magnitude & implication of suicide & attempted suicide; theories of suicidal behaviour; political determinants of suicide; social & economic determinants of suicide; psychiatric & somatic determinants of suicide; suicide risk assessment; cost of suicide & prevention strategies; health care strategies; public health strategies; survivors of suicide loss; young people & suicide; elderly people & suicide; networking in suicide research & prevention; & examples of how to develop suicide prevention on all the continents.