OXFORD TEXTBOOK OF SUICIDOLOGY AND SUICIDE PREVENTION: A GLOBAL PRESPECTIVE

Overview The most comprehensive, and global review of suicidology and suicide prevention ever published All chapters written by leading researchers in the field from across the globe Part of the world-famous Oxford Textbooks series Covers the full range of factors that influence and interact with suicide and suicidal behavior Approximately 1 million people commit suicide world-wide every year and around 10 million attempt suicide each year. Suicide is a major public health problem throughout the world, major efforts are currently being made to help reduce these numbers. However, suicide is the result of complex interactions between a range of factors, including historical, psychological, cultural, biological, and social, and any approach to treating the problem of suicide has to consider all these factors.