Böcker av Joy Hibbins

This book uses the innovative approach created by charity Suicide Crisis to bring understanding of what suicidal people go through - and shows how best to help in a succinct, accessible way.

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.

The story of how a mental health patient set up the first Suicide Crisis Centre of its kind in the UK, despite widespread scepticism and resistance from people in positions of power and influence. The author experienced a traumatic event in 2012 which triggered Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a descent into crisis and more than one suicide attempt. The book contains a very honest account of her experience of crisis and her sometimes disturbing experiences within mental health services. Unable to find the right kind of help, she set about creating something which would have helped her, and which is now helping other people who are at risk of suicide. The work of Suicide Crisis has been described as "pioneering" and "inspirational". Information about the charity can be found at: www.suicidecrisis.co.uk Money raised from the sale of this book will go directly to Suicide Crisis.