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(2014) Suicide: phenomenology and neurobiology, Dordrecht, Springer.
Cognitive Therapy is both the best-studied time-limited psychotherapy for treatment of depressive disorders and one of the few forms of psychotherapy that has been specifically adapted for treatment of acutely suicidal individuals. In Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Prevention the primary targets for intervention are hopelessness, suicidal ideations, and the behaviors that have been associated with suicide attempts in the past. Acute suicidal risk is mitigated by collaboratively developing a safety plan and hopelessness explicitly counteracted by identifying and strengthening reasons for living and social support. In the one controlled study conducted to date, patients randomly allocated to Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Prevention were significantly less likely to make another suicide attempt than were those receiving usual care.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09964-4_14
Full citation:
Thase, M. E. (2014)., Cognitive therapy with suicidal patients, in K. E. Cannon & T. J. Hudzik (eds.), Suicide: phenomenology and neurobiology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 237-242.
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