An abbreviated however data-packed
overview of a burgeoning well being disaster.
The numbers are appalling—over
47,000 suicides within the U.S. in 2017—and it’s rising worse. Via each
statistics and anecdotes, this slim quantity hammers dwelling the dramatic rise in
U.S. suicide charges throughout all demographic teams, areas, ages, and
occupations. The causes are multifarious and never properly understood: They vary
from fast contributors like quick access to means;
proximate elements akin to bullying and psychological sickness; and broader cultural
tendencies, together with rising financial anxiousness and social isolation. A complete
chapter zeroes in on teen suicides; one other examines the usually ignored
impacts (generally life-threatening) on the bereaved. The work concludes
with a short dialogue of prevention and postvention, with heavy emphasis on
diagnostic rubrics. The writing type is dry and knowledge intensive, aimed extra at
report writers than at these searching for emotional assist or closure. Nonetheless, the
inclusion of affecting private tales and tangential boxed inserts does assist
break the numbing impact of the fixed barrage of dire statistics. All
examples and citations are current, most from the final two years. The phrase
“commit suicide” or variations are used a number of instances. Coloration pictures present
people of assorted ages and ethnicities.
Greatest for libraries updating
sources on a problem that (alas!) isn’t going away anytime quickly. (supply
notes, appendices, sources, index, image credit) (Nonfiction. 12-16)
