Suicide Prevention Techniques: How a Suicide Crisis Service Saves Lives

Focusing on the methods used at a ground-breaking Suicide Crisis Centre which has a zero suicide achievement, this guide offers strategies to help people in suicidal crisis. Founded after the author's own suicidal experience, it challenges the established ways of working in mental health and sets out a new way to provide crisis care. An exclusive insight into the approach used by the innovative Suicide Crisis charity, which was formed through the author's own lived experience of suicidal crisis, and her inability to find the right kind of help. This experience prompts an understanding and awareness of what suicidal clients go through and the kind of help they require, and the zero suicide success rate of the charity proves that the techniques used are extraordinarily effective. Covering relationship-building, providing intense support, involving high-risk men least likely to seek help, assessing risk accurately and more, this groundbreaking approach provides what is needed to save lives of people in suicidal crisis.