Resource Tag: UNITED STATES. LOUISIANA

The processing of dreams has become an integral part of each member’s grief work in a Survivors of Suicide Support Group in New Orleans, Louisiana. The group provides a safe arena for the discussion of symbolic dreams which often reflect the stage of grief the individual was experiencing. Almost every participant in the group experienced […]

The Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center, Inc. has a contract with the Louisiana State Office of Mental Health to provide after-hours services to Mental Health Center clients in 4 regions of the state. This presentation describes these services & the training that counsellors receive. Statistical information based directly on calls received by the Center during […]

This issue (v.4, no.1, Spring 1992) of Jail Suicide Update contains 2 articles. The first article presents the pro-active response of the Maui County Police Department to suicide attempts & completions in their jails – a detailed case history is included. The second article discusses the assessment of mental health in Louisiana jails, including the […]

This presentation by a crisis intervention center in Louisiana addresses the challenges of a well-established agency to maintain visibility in an area with a constantly changing population. It reports on the use of a community awareness/satisfaction survey conducted by a marketing research firm, the use of billboard advertising to highlight the 24-hour crisis line & […]

This article reviews case histories of suicides by hanging in prisons in the United States. (26 refs.)

The present study examained the impact of Catholicism on suicide in 2 socio-culturally different regions in Louisiana. A multiple regression analysis of county suicide rates found no evidence for a contextual effect. Catholicism does not reduce suicide in the historically French Catholic, southern region of the state, & it does not increase suicide in the […]

In 1990, firearm-related injuries surpassed motor-vehicle crashes as the leading cause of death from injuries in both Louisiana & Texas. This report summarizes the analysis of death certificate data for firearm-related mortality in these 2 states. In Louisiana, firearm-related suicides increased by 47% for white males from 1970-1990. In Texas, 48% of the firearm-related deaths […]

This report deals with an assessment of mental health needs & services in Louisiana jails. In particular, the topic of jail suicide is briefly discussed. The majority of jail staff seemed to believe that genuine suicide attempts were rare & that most jail suicide attempts were attention-getting behaviors. Many jails reported placing potentially suicidal inmates […]

This report is divided into 5 sections: 1) the scope of the assessment; 2) the importance of mental health issues to jails; 3) the results of the assessment; 4) a mental health plan; & 5) the authors’ conclusions. The majority of jail staff believed that genuine suicide attempts were rare & that most attempts were […]

This pamphlet/bookmark provides 12 clues for identifying yourself or a friend as a substance abuser (e.g., a sudden drop in grades or a drastic change in behavior). It also provides a help line phone number in Metairie, Louisiana. (VM)

The problem of consistent (chronic) callers to crisis hotlines is described. Usually these callers, while they are unhappy, are not in “crisis”. A crisis hotline does not help these people; in fact, they may encourage the person to stay in his present situation & not get appropriate help. Referring these people to a therapist so […]

A teenage suicide prevention curriculum designed for students grade 9-12 is described briefly. The goal is to teach suicide prevention skills & 5 objectives are listed. The curriculum, which includes 5 one hour lesson plans using experimential & didactic teaching methods, is presented by volunteers who participated in a 20 hour training program. (LH)

The author describes a program at the crisis intervention center in Baton Rouge offering services such as the phone, suicide outreach program, suicide survivors support program, gatekeepers, creative living series, community network & community education. She stresses the importance of knowing about local programs for teenage suicide & emphasizes the need for school-based suicide intervention […]

This chapter addresses 3 questions: 1) why do blacks commit suicide? 2) why is the rate so low? 3) what has changed since the civil rights movement began? Issues such as overregulation & the black male, solidarity in the black community, a conceptualization of the reasons for the low suicide rate among blacks, the role […]

An examination of the influence of Catholic populations on rates of suicide among the political subunits of Louisana. The findings indicate that the presence of Catholics does not reduce the rate of suicide. Moreover, where Catholic populations are not located in a traditionally Catholic culture, their greater relative presence is associated with an increase in […]

The author states that discovering the social meanings of suicide in a community may be an important preliminary step in the process of community networking in isolated or rural communities, by indicating directions for community education efforts. Differing attitudes among those coming into contact with suicidal individuals in a Cajun parish in S.W. Louisiana are […]

The focus of this study is on the complexity of relationships between dimensions of black suicide and the social, demographic and economic characteristics of black suicides in Louisiana, to test a theoretical model of suicide based on the theory of “external restraints”. (KB)

Develops theoretical model of suicide, based on the previous work of A.F.Henry & J.F. Short (1954) & applies it in the study of black suicides in Orleans Parish, Louisiana. The focus is on suicide among a traditionally low-status, low-suicide group, 1 which Henry & Short cited in support of the positive relation between status & […]

A re-evaluation of Henry and Short’s external restraint theory through an anlysis of five structural variables: sex, age, strength of the relational system, social status and community integration. The sample consited of 779 death certificates from New Orleans (20 suicides and 573 non-suicide). (KB)

Using data on individual suicide, it was found that the consequences of cityward migration vary by sex, ethnicity, duration of residence, & the distance between life styles in the old & new community. The most crucial role problem of suicides was gender-specific; female problems centered around the marital role, while male problems related to job […]

This paper looks at the employed & unemployed who had completed suicide. 52 suicides were working full time (50%). The others showed unemployed 22%, part-time employment 11%, sick or disabled 8%, retired before 60 years 5%, on vacation or within a day of returning to work 3%, and able to work & waiting for a […]