Understanding Suicide in the United States: A Social, Biological, and Psychological Perspective

by Jay Schulkin and Meaghan Stacy

By integrating sociological, psychological, and biological perspectives, this book aims to demystify and destigmatize a challenging and taboo topic - suicide. It weaves current theories and statistics on suicide into a larger message of how suicide can affect almost anyone, and how urgent prevention needs are. Written in an accessible manner, it assumes no pre-existing knowledge of suicide. The broad nontechnical overview will appeal to general readers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009386905
• ISBN13: 9781009386906
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"