Resource Tag: CANADA. ONTARIO. TORONTO

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This presentation provided a review of best practices for suicide prevention on transit properties. The Toronto (Ontario) Transit Commission has pursued an active suicide prevention strategy since the early 1970s & has seen the annual rate of completed & attempted suicides steadily decline. The first strategic element in the suicide prevention strategy was to control […]

Published in “Back to the Future: Refocusing the Image of Suicide,” ed. by J L McIntosh

The present study examined the relationship between suicide ideation & various predictive psychological factors in order to improve upon existing models of student suicidality. Specific attention was paid to social hopelessness, an interpersonal form of hopelessness, in the prediction of suicidality. A sample of 143 college students completed measures of suicide ideation, daily stress, depression, […]

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This study presents the results of a qualitative analysis of the narratives of 29 street youth in which they describe their experiences with, & understanding of, suicide. A history of attempts was reported by 76% of the participants & analysis revealed themes of isolation, rejection/betrayal, lack of control, & most centrally, low self-worth as forming […]

This paper describes a psychosocial/psychoeducational group intervention for individuals with a history of recurrent suicide attempts. It is designed to reduce the risk of future suicidal behaviour & modify the client’s psychopathology. The intervention was targeted at an inner-city population & emphasized client validation & participation in therapy. A multimodal approach was incorporated to meet […]

This study determines the undesirability for the individual symptoms of depression, & examines the impact that personal experience with depression has to these scores. 75 subjects (19 with current depression, 21 with past depression, & 35 healthy controls) indicated their perceived undesirability to 10 symptoms. Results indicate that psychological symptoms of depression, such as suicidal […]

This article describes the protective mechanisms that will be constructed around the Prince Edward (Bloor Street) Viaduct in Toronto in order to prevent suicide in this area. This suicide prevention initiative is compared to a similar renovation complete in Washington’s Ellington Bridge, which decreased suicide to 1 in the 5 years following its construction. (SC)

The author examined how suicide is manifested in the context of street life & the subculture of street youth. His goal was to explore the meanings suicide holds for street youth.

This study had three goals: 1) to determine the prevalence of suicidal ideation & suicide attempts among the homeless; 2) to determine what aspects of homelessness predict suicidality; & 3) to determine which aspects remain predictive after controlling for key covariates, such as mental illness. 61% of a study sample reported suicidal ideation & 34% […]

This article discusses suicide among Canadian physicians. Despite high rates of depression among physicians, they tend to resist seeking treatment partly because they see themselves as healers & not as patients. Fears about their professional reputation may also inhibit physicians from seeking help for mental health problems.

This article describes the caseload of completed suicides at a single psychiatric facility & reviews the perceived deficiencies in the care of those patients. There were 276 completed suicides over the study period, yielding suicide rates of 206 per 100,000 registered patients & 123.5 per 100,000 inpatient discharges. The male to female ratio was 2:1 […]

This article discusses suicides which have occurred at the Bloor Street Viaduct in Toronto, Ontario. The Schizophrenia Society of Ontario began a campaign in 1997 to have a safety fence installed after 4 members of their society completed suicide at this location. In 1998, Toronto City Council voted unanimously to have a design competition for […]

This article provides a brief biography of Martin Kruze who had been sexually abused over a period of 7 years by two employees of Maple Leaf Gardens. One of the men who abused Kruze & numerous other victims was sentenced to only two years in prison. Kruze jumped to his death three days after sentence […]