Critical suicidology : transforming suicide research and prevention for the 21st century /
Critical Suicidology introduces alternative approaches to suicide prevention, approaches that don't pathologize inequality and distress but rather take into consideration the social, political, and cultural contexts of people's lives.
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| Language: | English |
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Vancouver ; Toronto :
UBC Press,
2015.
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| Online Access: | Ebook Central Academic Complete |
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Table of Contents:
- Title Page; Contents; Introduction: Rethinking Suicide; Part 1: Critiquing Suicidology: Constructions of Suicide and Practices of Prevention; 1. Critiquing Contemporary Suicidology; 2. A Critical Look at Current Suicide Research; 3. Exploring Possibilities for Indigenous Suicide Prevention: Responding to Cultural Understandings and Practices; 4. Risky Bodies: Making Suicide Knowable among Youth; 5. Speaking of Suicide as a Gendered Problematic: Suicide Attempts and Recovery within Women's Narratives of Depression; Part 2: Insider Perspectives.
- 6. "Being More Than Just Your Final Act": Elevating the Multiple Storylines of Suicide with Narrative Practices7. When Despair and Hope Meet the Stigma of "Manipulation" and "Ambivalence"; 8. No Regrets; Part 3: Creating Alternatives: Re-envisioning Suicide and Prevention; 9. Hate Kills: A Social Justice Response to "Suicide"; 10. Queer Youth Suicide: Discourses of Difference, Framing Suicidality, and the Regimentation of Identity; 11. Understanding the Unfathomable in Suicide: Poetry, Absence, and the Corporeal Body.
- 12. Indigenous Best Practices: Community-Based Suicide Prevention in Nunavut, Canada13. Reimagining Youth Suicide Prevention; Contributors; Index; Copyright Page.