Suicide - Understanding and Ending a National Tragedy

An urgent call to action on a rising-and preventable-trend.

About the author

John Bateson was executive director of a nationally certified crisis intervention and suicide prevention center for 16 years. He also was executive director of three university counseling centers and deputy director of a multicounty social service agency. He served on the steering committee of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (now the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline) and was appointed to a blue-ribbon committee that created the "California Strategic Plan on Suicide Prevention." He is the author of The Education of a Coroner, The Last and Greatest Battle, The Final Leap, and Building Hope.

Product details

• Authors: John Bateson
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2024
• EAN: 9781421449418
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4941-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law