Suicide Research: Selected Readings Volume 8

Marc Notes: Volumes 3 and 4 have the same ISBN.; At foot of title: Australian Institute for Suicide Prevention and Research, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention.; Includes bibliographical references.; The initial section of the volume[s] collects a number of publications that could have particular relevance for the Australian people in terms of potential applicability. These researches are accompanied by a short comment from us, and an explanation of the motives that justify why we have considered of interest the implementation of studies' findings in the Australian context. The central part of the volume[s] represents a selection of research articles of particular significance that represent a remarkable advancement of suicide research knowledge;their abstracts are reported in extenso, underlining our invitation to read those papers in full text. The last section reports all items retrievable from major electronic databases. We have catalogued them on the basis of their prevailing reference to fatal and non-fatal suicidal behaviours, with various sub-headings (e.g. epidemiology, risk factors, and so on).--Foreword to each volume.