 | Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention This book explores suicide prevention perspectives from around the world, considering both professionals' points of view as well as first-person accounts from suicidal individuals. Scholars around the globe have puzzled over what makes a person suicidal and what is in the minds of those individuals who die by suicide. Most often the focus is not on the motives for suicide, nor on the phenomenology of this act, but on what is found from small cohorts of suicidal individuals. This book offers a tentative synthesis of a complex phenomenon, and sheds some light on models of suicide that are less frequently encountered in the literature. Written by international experts, it makes a valuable contribution to the field of suicidology that appeals to a wide readership, from mental health professionals to researchers in suicidology and students.Maurizio Pompili, M.D, Ph.D. is Full Professor and Chair of Psychiatry as part of the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he received his M.D. degree, where he trained in Psychiatry (both summa cum laude). He is the Director of the Residency Training Program in Psychiatry of his faculty. He is the Director of the University Psychiatric Clinic and the Director of the Suicide Prevention Center at Sant'Andrea Hospital in Rome. He is the President of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Technique degree program at the Sapienza University of Rome. He has a doctoral degree in Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences. He was also part of the Community at McLean Hospital - Harvard Medical School, the USA, where he received a psychiatry fellowship. He is the recipient of the American Association of Suicidology's 2008 Shneidman Award for "Outstanding contributions in research in suicidology." Apart from being theItalian Representative of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) for many years, he has been afterward one of the Vice-Presidents of this association. He is now Co-Chair of the IASP Special Interest Group in Risk Resilience and Reasons for Living. At present, he is a member of the IASP Executive Committed in the role of treasures. He is also a member of the International Academy for Suicide Research and the American Association of Suicidology. He is also President of the Suicidology Section of the Italian Psychiatric Society; He has published more than 550 papers on suicide, bipolar disorders, and other psychiatric perspectives, including original research articles, book chapters, and editorials. He co-edited ten international books on suicide; He ranks in the top 10 suicide authors of 500 world suicide authors listed in the ISI Web of Science (this is in terms of the number of focused works on the topic of suicide that are indexed in the ISI Web ofScience). He has been recognized by Expertscape as an expert in suicide, ranking 1st worldwide. |
