Rational suicide, irrational laws : examining current approaches to suicide in policy and law / Susan Stefan.
2016
HV6548.U5 S74 2016
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Title
Rational suicide, irrational laws : examining current approaches to suicide in policy and law / Susan Stefan.
Author
Stefan, Susan, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780190497217 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
HV6548.U5 S74 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.285610973
Summary
This text is for policymakers, lawyers, doctors, mental health professionals, hospice workers, and for anyone who has thought about suicide or has lost someone to suicide. Based on surveys and interviews of more than 300 suicide attempt survivors, doctors, lawyers, and mental health professionals, it painstakingly exposes the irrationality of current policies and laws about suicide, including assisted suicide. The author suggests specific reforms, including increased protection of mental health professionals from liability, increased protection of suicidal people from coercive interventions, reframing medical involvement in assisted suicide, encouraging universities to stop forcing suicidal students to leave, and focusing on approaches to suicidal people that have helped them rather than assuming suicidality is always a symptom of an underlying mental illness.
Note
This text is for policymakers, lawyers, doctors, mental health professionals, hospice workers, and for anyone who has thought about suicide or has lost someone to suicide. Based on surveys and interviews of more than 300 suicide attempt survivors, doctors, lawyers, and mental health professionals, it painstakingly exposes the irrationality of current policies and laws about suicide, including assisted suicide. The author suggests specific reforms, including increased protection of mental health professionals from liability, increased protection of suicidal people from coercive interventions, reframing medical involvement in assisted suicide, encouraging universities to stop forcing suicidal students to leave, and focusing on approaches to suicidal people that have helped them rather than assuming suicidality is always a symptom of an underlying mental illness.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 18, 2016).
Series
American Psychology-Law Society series.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9780199981199
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