suicide prevention

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• The Joy and The Sorrow of Christmas

  
  Jumping The Candlestick — Authority: 112
  Today is the Eve of Christmas Eve. Were two days away from the "big day," and around here my spouse, kids and I are feeling cozy and relaxed. We had a nice visit with family last weekend, and weve another family gathering to look forward to later in the week. Household stress is wonderfully low: presents were ...
  5 days ago

• Memorializing in real life and real time

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Last week, a friend of a friend died by suicide. This friend of mine found out about her friends death via Twitter. "Of all places!" you may be thinking, but let me explain. My friend, Leigh, and her friend, Gideon, had connected online. Gideon had a number of "virtual" friends, people who considered him part of ...
  5 days ago

• A pebble in a pond

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  "A suicide death is like a pebble in a pond. The waves ripple outward." I found this simile, which a colleague used in a conversation earlier this week, so immediately illustrative of the effects of suicide and indicative of the importance of what some of us in the field have come to call "postvention." Postvention ...
  1 week ago

• Christmas for Your Insides #14

  
  The World According to Lawgirl — Authority: 136
  American Foundation for Suicide Prevention More than 32,000 people in the United States die by suicide every year. It is this country’s 11th leading cause of death, and is often characterized as a response to a single event or set of circumstances. However, unlike these popular conceptions, suicide is a much more ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Perfect Gift for a Man: Reinventing Manhood (Book)

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 116
  Dec. 9, 2009 And now for the GOOD news! Yesterday for I wrote about ‘boys being turned into monsters’ with toxic marketing proliferation about what it means to be masculine, rolling out narrowcast perceptions and gender roles thinner than a crepe. Today, meet 30 men who donated their stories, time and ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Be a man and get through it.’

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Combat-related post-traumatic stress. The continued deaths of soldiers by suicide. The effects of being at war on a soldiers return home - including domestic violence and homicide. Even Oprahs going to be covering it - her show is soliciting stories from people affected by these issues. The New York Times ...
  2 weeks ago

• WoW the world of gaming has evolved

  
  Nabweekly.ca — Authority: 127
  After he conquered the trilogy his next feats would range between the Warcraft trilogy played offline to the Diablo series played online, he then took one step up and asked to register into new gaming world, one we thought harmless called World of Warcraft. The inception of this new virtual world when released in 2004 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Trevor Project Coming to Tulare County

  
  Queer Visalia — Authority: 129
  From the Porterville Recorder : Suicide: Rates are high. December 04, 2009 5:41 PM BY JENNA CHANDLER THE PORTERVILLE RECORDER A well known national organization geared towards preventing suicide attempts among gay youth has begun an educational and awareness push in Tulare County. It will be the first time ...
  3 weeks ago

• Report: Suicide prevention efforts on track

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 146
  The Council Rock School District’s suicide prevention effort is a strong model that can be further improved through various internal and external steps, according to a study reviewed tonight during the school board meeting. The board hired the Services for Teens at Risk Center at the University of Pittsburgh in ...
  3 weeks ago

• International suicide prevention

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  A few weeks ago, I posted about differences in suicide rates throughout the world, and received a thoughtful response from Andrew Grimes, a psychologist who has worked for many years in Japan. Mr. Grimes offered his perspective on why Japans suicide numbers are so high, and what it might take to impact the suicide ...
  3 weeks ago

• Suicide Prevention – Understanding and strengthening

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 140
  Public involvement in suicide prevention: understanding and strengthening lay responses to distress , BMC Public Health 2009, 9:308 Owens C, Owen G, Lambert H, Donovan J, Belam J, Rapport F, Lloyd K 1 Peninsula Medical School (Universities of Exeter & Plymouth), Wonford House, Dryden Road, ...
  4 weeks ago

• SUICIDE RISK Assessment: 6 Steps to a Better Instrument

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 140
  SUICIDE RISK Assessment: 6 Steps to a Better Instrument, Brenda Hermes, Kathy Deakin, Kathy Lee, Sherry Robinson. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services . Jun 2009. Vol. 47, Iss. 6; p. 44-50 Abstract: Recent research indicates that commonly used instruments to assess suicidal ...
  4 weeks ago

• RUOK Day

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  Today in Australia is RUOK Day, a national day of action for suicide prevention. On this day people are encouraged to ask family members, friends and colleagues one simple question, “are you OK?”.  Please take time to ask this one question to someone you  know who is struggling to cope (it may save their life). ...
  4 weeks ago

• Suicide Prevention Strategy Implementation Programme

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 140
  Suicide Prevention Strategy Implementation Programme        National Mental Health Development Unit Click on the title above to access the full range of resources Abstract: This programme commenced in September 2002 following the launch of the Suicide Prevention Strategy for England to support the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Families of Military Suicides Seek White House Condolences

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 447
  As one who lived through the Vietnam War era, I lost two friends - their family owned the summer home next to ours - who had served in the Army and came back home seriously disturbed emotionally by what they had experienced to the point that they took their own lives. A cousin also served as an Army Captain and ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Dangerous Myth

  
  Promoting Hope, Preventing Suicide — Authority:
  Is there an increase in suicide deaths during the holiday season? Its been clearly demonstrated that, no, suicides actually increase in other seasons (spring and fall). But, how many times have you read or heard that suicide increases around the holidays? The Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Megan Meier Saga Comes to an End

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 435
  It would appear that the sad story of Megan Meier has finally come to an end. In July, we reported that a Federal judge had decided to reverse a jury’s decision and dismiss three charges of misdemeanor computer fraud against Lori Drew. Last Friday, Federal prosecutors decided not to appeal this decision , ...
  4 weeks ago

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