Resource Tag: SELF-HELP GROUPS

Associations between lifestyle, working environment, depressive symptoms, & suicide ideation were investigated. Variables measured included job stressors, working hours, overtime work, smoking status, alcohol consumption, sleep, exercise, meals, & family factors. A total of 4,118 employees (2,834 men, 1,284 women) in 11 cities & districts across Japan were studied. On stepwise multivariate logistic regression analysis, […]

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This book is written by a mother who lost her 20-year-old son to suicide. It tells his story as well as the experiences of other families mourning the loss of a child to suicide.

Told in the form of letters, this book includes twelve life stories written by survivors of suicide attempts & people bereaved by suicide. The author adds his interpretations & comments as a guide to the messages embedded in these stories.

This paper reports on a study of people living with HIV to examine the experience of depressive symptoms, self-care symptom management strategies, symptom outcomes in response to those strategies, & sources from which the strategies were learned. A subset of 34 HIV-positive men & women from a larger study reported experiencing depressive symptoms. 7 of […]

The author, formerly a quarterback in the National Football League, lost his 15-year-old son to suicide. In this book, Hipple discusses not only his grief journey but also his struggle with and recovery from depression.

The aim of this research was to reveal the function of suicide websites by examining the language used by individuals to describe their feelings & communicate in a social environment. Content analysis of 7 message boards from a suicide website revealed that the central topic was self-disclosure through communication with others & not death images […]

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This article describes the development, content, & potential uses of new suicide bereavement resources developed by the University of Oxford in collaboration with the British Department of Health. (15 refs.)

This article presents an overview of the wide range of telecommunication-based suicide prevention approaches. Interventions using the Internet, telephone, & videoconferencing are discussed, including crisis intervention, referral, support, suicide risk assessment, pscyhotherapy for individuals at risk, & online-based suicide prevention training & education. Research regarding effectiveness of telecommunication-based suicide prevention in various demographic & clinical […]

This comic book relates the story of Brianna, an Aboriginal teenager who develops a gambling problem. She finds help in traditional teachings & practices.

The authors designed this study to understand how adolescents overcome suicidality from the subjective perspective of 13 previously suicidal female participants drawn from across Canada. A resilience framework was used to conceptualize the process. Data analysis using basic interpretive qualitative inquiry revealed 4 domains of resilience: social processes, emotional processes, cognitive processes, & purposeful action. […]

This book is meant to provide a full-spectrum view of suicide & recovery for both suicidal people & those bereaved by suicide. To create a better understanding of the suicidal mind, the factors that lead to self-destructive acts are examined. A new model designed for the professional bereaved by client suicide is included. The final […]

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This document outlines risk factors & prevention strategies for males in the following at-risk groups: men in the middle years; men in rural communities; culturally & linguistically diverse men; Aboriginal & Torres Strait men; men in relationships that have broken down; & older men. A guide for program managers on responding to individual risk is […]

This book addresses the extraordinary increase in serious mental illness & self-destructive behaviours on American college campuses. The first part of the book addresses: normal developmental issues; pressures & competition in academics, extracurricular activities, parental expectations, & racial & cultural relations; financial worries & social fears; & crises on campus: feeling helpless & hopeless (including […]

In this book, the author recounts his bright but troubled youth, his deteriorating state of mind in college, & how this led him to make a detailed suicide plan. The book offers practical advice for other young people & draws on the expertise of a psychiatrist to provide information on how to seek psychiatric treatment, […]

The impact of per capita consumption of total alcohol, spirits, beer, & wine; unemployment rate; & Alcoholics Anonymous membership rate on total, male & female suicide rates in Manitoba during 1976-1997 was examined. Time series analyses with autoregressive integrated moving average modelling were applied to total, male, & female suicide rates. Total alcohol consumption, & […]