Assessing and Treating Suicidal Thinking and Behaviors in Children and Adolescents

Assessing and Treating Suicidal Thinking and Behaviors in Children and Adolescents is a guide to working with children and young people who present with either obvious or hidden suicidal thoughts, preoccupations, or plans.

Leslie W. Baker is the CEO and owner of Therapy2Thrive® Ruby Hill Marriage and Family Counseling Center, an outpatient clinic in California. Mary Ruth Cross is the CEO and owner of Treehouse Family Counseling Services, an outpatient clinic focused on play therapy treatment with children and families.

Part One: Understanding Youth Suicide 1. Introduction 2. Law and Ethics, Research, Media, and Looking Forward Toward Zero Suicide 3. Integrating Psychiatry into Treatment of Suicidal Youth: Information for Clinicians 4. Countertransference in the Treatment of Youth Suicide and Interventions for Providing Inner and External Support Part Two: Assessment, Theory, and Treatment of Youth Suicide 5. Assessment of Suicide in Youth 6. Play Therapy Theories: Applications to Suicide in Youth 7. Treatment of Suicidal Thinking and Behaviors in Children and Adolescents Using Play Therapy 8. Impacts of Diversity in Suicide Assessment, Treatment and Prevention for Children and Adolescents 9. The Role of Schools in Suicide: Response, Resourcing and Prevention for Children 10. Technology's Emerging Role from Assessment to Prevention in Children and Adolescents