Respectful and effective solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) for suicidal clientsFew tasks are more important-and daunting-than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope. Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicideis a unique resource providing fresh approaches to treating individuals and families where suicide is an issue. This comprehensive book provides a thorough grounding in using a solution-focused therapy approach to elicit and reinforce hope and reasons for living. Strategies are demonstrated with stories, case vignettes, and transcripts. Special applications include some of the most challenging high-risk clients that therapists treat, including people who make repeated attempts. This powerful resource offers a set of practice principles based on the existing empirical evidence in the context of clinical utility and client expertise. Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicideprovides case transcripts to help in role-play or rehearsal situations as well as numerous practical tips. The book also provides lists of solution-focused questions for use in various situations, including suicide crisis, the use of anti-depressant medications, facilitation of collaborative working relationships with colleagues as well as clients. Each application chapter gives therapists practical, hands-on tools and uses stories and illustrations to make the book user-friendly. The text also offers a brief appendix on the basic skills of SFBT. Topics discussed inHope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicideinclude:current knowledge about preventing suicide at the individual levelhelping clients to utilize their strengths even when they are in crisishow research in diverse areas supports the solution-focused approacheffective treatment for couples and families when one member is suicidalbasic approaches to effective therapy with young children and teens who have attempted suiciderespectful, effective therapy with people who seem to have adopted being suicidal as their primary coping strategytherapeutic tools that help the therapist to stay hopeful about clients and strengthen the therapeutic relationshipHope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicideis a valuable resource for counselors and therapists at every experience level. | Hope in Action by Heather Fiske, Paperback | Indigo Chapters