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About the Authors
John Sommers-Flanagan, PhD, is a professor of counseling at the University of Montana. He is the author or coauthor of more than 100 professional publications, including the books Tough Kids, Cool Counseling (2007, American Counseling Association), Clinical Interviewing (6th ed., 2017, Wiley), and Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice (3rd ed., 2018, Wiley). When not immersed in writing, speaking, teaching, and researching, John keeps busy watering the zucchini, picking beans, and starring in videos along with his grandchildren. He also excels at making pancakes, waffles, and quiche. He was drawn to writing this book because of his earnest belief that effective suicide assessment and intervention simply must become more positive, skilled, and compassionate. You can find what he is up to on his blog, https://johnsommersflanagan.com/.
Rita Sommers-Flanagan, PhD, is an author, counselor, passive solar advocate, and professor emerita of counseling at the University of Montana, with many published books and articles. She enjoys collecting rocks and driftwood, jogging, blogging, and contemplating the meaning of life. Her experiences with and views about suicide have been shaped and changed by clients, colleagues, students, and friends who have had to cope with the phenomenon of suicide clinically and/or personally. She looks forward to writing further in this area, including addressing end-of-life policies and practices as they intersect with the materials in this book. In the meantime, you can follow her on her blogs: https://drbossypants.wordpress.com/author/ritasf13/and https://godcomesby.com/.
As coauthors, the Sommers-Flanagans have stylistic differences that are distinct but usually complementary. John dives way too far down various rabbit holes, skims and reads too many journal articles and book chapters, jots notes on several hundred different small pieces of paper, and then begins a word processing version of loose associations about arcane facts. (Did you know that suicide rates among males older than 85 in the United States are 13.17 times higher than suicide rates among females older than 85 in the United States? Should we include results from that one cool study showing that trait impulsiveness is not associated with increased suicide attempts but that negative state-triggered impulsiveness is linked to suicide attempts?) At some point, Rita nudges John out of his loose associations and research reveries, takes her commonsense garden clippers to John’s meandering prose, pulls a few of his worst puns, and voilà! After mostly agreeing with each other’s brilliance, they send the resulting draft out to a plethora of volunteer readers, collect feedback, marvel at the diversity in perspective, integrate the input, get organizing and copyediting assistance through the publisher, and end up with pretty much what you are about to read.
