Few tasks are more important - and daunting - than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope. Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations about Suicide is a unique resource, providing fresh approaches to treating individuals and families where suicide is an issue. This comprehensive book provides a thorough grounding in using a solution-focused therapy approach to elicit and reinforce hope and reasons for living. Strategies are demonstrated with stories, case vignettes, and transcripts. Special applications include some of the most challenging high-risk clients that therapists treat, including people who make repeated attempts. Offering a set of practice principles based on the existing empirical evidence in the context of clinical utility and client expertise, this is a powerful and valuable resource for counselors and therapists at every experience level.About the Author:Heather Fiske, PhD, CPsych, is a psychologist with over 30 years of clinical experience. She is an active volunteer and frequent speaker for suicide prevention advocacy organizations, teaches a postgraduate program in solution-focused therapy at the University of Toronto, and is currently in private practice

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