Resource Tag: MINORITIES

This report summarizes the presentations made at a Glasgow conference on self-harm & suicide among black & ethnic minority women. A number of recommendations were made for the provision of support services, research, & awareness raising.

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This Commission was established to study the problems & gaps in the mental health system in the United States & to make concrete recommendations for immediate improvements that all levels of government, local agencies, & public & private health care providers can implement. 6 goals & the ways in which these can be achieved are […]

Age-adjusted suicide rates were compared for Russians in Estonia, Estonians in Estonia, & inhabitants of Russia in radically chaged socio-political situations. High, but still lower suicide rates for Russians in Estonia were observed in comparison with Estonians during 1983-1990 when Estonia was part of the Soviet Union. During the transition period, 1991-1998, a sharp increase […]

The authors compared suicide risk among persons with foreign background with that of the majority population in Denmark to determine whether certain minority groups are at a particular risk for suicide as well as to illuminate gender differences. Suicide risk was generally higher among persons with foreign background compared with the majority population & the […]

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This study sought to better understand the participants in a Gatekeeper-model youth suicide prevention program in Los Angeles, by examining randomly selected records from 1999 for 100 youths who received services from the program. The authors found that 59% of participants were girls. Caucasian students were most likely to receive crisis intervention & Latino students […]

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Text in both English & Maori.

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This kit is designed to enable communities to develop a framework for responding to the issue of youth suicide using a public health approach as outlined in the New Zealand Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy. General information about suicide is provided. Prevention, intervention, & postvention goals for communities are laid out. Information about how to create […]

For the original article by J Paul et al, please see SIEC #2004-0860. For a related commentary, see also #2004-0861

For the complete Guide, please see SIEC #2004-1202.

The authors review current data on types of stressors acting on women physicians, the consequences of these stressors & methods of coping with them. In edition to the pressures acting on all physicians, the authors examine specific stressors faced by women related to discrimination, lack of role models & support, role strain, & overload. The […]

This consultation framework sets out what those planning, delivering, & monitoring primary care & mental health services to ethnic or minority communities should do to improve services for clients experiencing mental illness & distress, & their relatives & caregivers. It asks for views on what needs to be done at national level to provide support […]

This presentation reports on a study of 40 adoescents of Indian heritage in South Africa, consecutively admitted to hospital subsequent to a self-harm attempt. 52.5% accepted treatment involving a combination of individual & family sessions. Follow-up was completed with 39 subjects. Findings suggest that psychological intervention had been effective in reducing the feeling of hopelessness; […]

This article describes development, implementation, & initial evaluation of a high school postvention program in a 3-county area of greater Chicago. The program integrates public health, epidemiological, psychiatric, & postvention paradigms to provide a comprehensive approach to the aftermath of adolescent suicide. Organizational issues such as a systematic school entry, computerized school database, proactive training, […]

A survey to estimate the prevalence of sexual, assaultive & suicidal behaviours was administered to 3,738 predominantly Hispanic & African-American junior high students in New York. 10% of males & 19% of females reported suicide ideation or attempts. The primary risk factor for suicidal behaviour was depressive symptoms. Involvement in sexual & assaultive behaviours substantially […]

The present study tested both a stress problem solving model and a stress social support model in the etiology of depressive symptoms, hopelessness, and suicide ideation for a group of Asian international students in the United States. Problem solving skills and social support were hypothesized as 2 mediators between life stress and depressive symptoms, hopelessness, […]