This handbook provides a comprehensive summary of the most important and exciting advances in our understanding of suicide and self-injury and our ability to predict and prevent it.

• 1. Introduction to the Handbook


• Matthew K. Nock


• Part One: Classification of Self-Injurious Behaviors


• 2. The Classification of Suicidal Behavior


• Kelly Posner, Beth Brodsky, Kseniya Yershova, Jacqueline Buchanan, and John Mann


• 3. Distinguishing between Suicidal and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury


• Jennifer J. Muehlenkamp


• 4. Should We Expand the Conceptualization of Self-Injurious Behavior? Rationale, Review, and Recommendations


• Jill M. Hooley and Sarah St. Germain


• Part Two: Phenomenology and Epidemiology


• 5. Suicidal Behaviors among Children and Adolescents


• Christianne Esposito-Smythers, Julie Weismoore, Rupa P. Zimmermann, and Anthony Spirito


• 6. Suicidal Behaviors Among Adults


• Eve K. Moscicki


• 7. Person-Centered Prevention of Suicide Among Older Adults


• Paul R. Duberstein and Marnin J. Heisel


• 8. Non-suicidal Self-injury across the Lifespan


• Janis Whitlock and Matthew Selekman


• Part Three: Approaches to Understanding Self-Injurious Behaviors


• 9. Genetic and Neurobiological Approaches to Understanding Suicidal Behaviors


• Laura M. Fiori, Carl Ernst, and Gustavo Turecki


• 10. Developmental Approaches to Understanding Suicidal and Self-Injurious Behaviors


• Sheila E. Crowell, Christina M. Derbidge, and Theodore P. Beauchaine


• 11. Social and Ecological Approaches to Suicidal Behaviors and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (NSSI)


• Nicole Heilbron, Joseph C. Franklin, John D. Guerry, and Mitchell J. Prinstein


• 12. Cognitive and Information Processing Approaches to Understanding Suicidal Behaviors


• Amy Wenzel and Megan Spokas


• 13. Psychodynamics of Suicide


• Mark J. Goldblatt


• 14. Racial/Ethnic, Spiritual/Religious, and Sexual Orientation Influences on Suicidal Behaviors


• Regina M. Sherman, Barbara D'Orio, Miesha N. Rhodes, Stephanie Gantt, and Nadine J. Kaslow


• 15. Comprehensive Theories of Suicidal Behaviors


• Edward A. Selby, Thomas E. Joiner Jr., and Jessica D. Ribeiro


• 16. Comprehensive Theoretical Models of NSSI


• Colleen M. Jacobson and Kristen Batejan


• Part Four: Assessment


• 17. Core Competencies, Warning Signs, and a Framework for Suicide Risk Assessment in Clinical Practice


• M. David Rudd


• 18. Assessment of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury


• E. David Klonsky and Stephen P. Lewis


• Part Five: Prevention and Intervention


• 19. Prevention of Suicidal Behaviors


• José M. Bertolote


• 20. Psychological Treatment of Suicidal Behaviors


• Erin F. Ward-Ciesielski and Marsha M. Linehan


• 21. The Pharmacologic Treatment of Suicidal Patients


• Jan Fawcett and Katie A. Busch


• 22. Prevention of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury


• Nancy L. Heath, Jessica R. Toste, and Shannon-Dell MacPhee


• 23. Psychological Treatments for Non-Suicidal Self-Injury


• Barbara Stanley, Virginia Fineran, and Beth Brodsky


• 24. Pharmacologic Treatment of NSSI


• Paul L. Plener and Gerhard Libal


• Part Six: Special Issues


• 25. Overlap between Suicidal Behavior and Interpersonal Violence


• Marc Hillbrand


• 26. Suicide Terrorism


• Ellen Townsend


• 27. Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia


• Agnes van der Heide


• 28. Survivors of Suicide


• Holly Parker


• 29. Conclusion to the Handbook


• Matthew K. Nock

Matthew K. Nock, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Research in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.