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"In this provocative and insightful work, Drs. Chiles and Strosahl offer a concrete, practical framework to fill this gap. In doing so, they challenge one of the chief underlying assumptions of traditional approaches to suicide assessment and treatment - that suicidal behavior can be predicted and controlled. In its place, they propose a new conceptualization of suicidality - as learned, reinforced problem-solving behaviors that an individual uses when all other options seem to have failed. Rather than focusing on risk prediction and management, interventions in this learning model target the problems that the suicidal behavior is being used to solve. The assumption is that a patient's suicidal behavior represents his or her best attempt at that moment in time to deal with life's difficulties."--(www.appi.org)
All Ages
Adulthood (22+)
English
1585621404
John A. Chiles M.D., Kirk D. Strosahl Ph.D.
2005 American Psychiatric Publishing
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