Beyond Risk and Toward a Life Worth Living

Alternatives to Suicide: Beyond Risk and Toward a Life Worth Living offers a compassionate, evidence-informed roadmap for clinicians, caregivers, and anyone supporting people in crisis. Blending clinical research, case examples, and practical tools, this book moves past narrow risk-checklists to focus on how to build safety, restore hope, and create meaning. You’ll find concrete conversation guides, steps for de-escalation, strategies to strengthen social supports, and ways to co-design safety plans that respect a person’s values. Wri...