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Suicide risk assessment and prevention, volume 2
Suicide in Different Cultures Suicide in South Asia Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Madhumitha Balaji Cultural Considerations in Suicide Research and Practice Paola Mendoza-Rivera, Helen Ma, Bruce Bongar, Joyce P. Chu The Roles of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in Suicide Stephanie Freitag, Yara Mekawi, Koree S. Badio, Ecclesia V. Holmes, Alix Youngbood, Dorian A. Lamis Suicide Among Indigenous […]
Suicide risk assessment and prevention, volume 1
Models of Suicide Models of Suicide and Their Implications for Suicide Prevention David Lester Neurobiological Approach to the Study of Suicide Kees van Heeringen The Journey Back from Suicide Sylvia Huitson Suicide as Syndemic Chris Caulkins Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide from a Cultural Perspective Teresita Morfín-López Protective Factors in Suicidal Behavior Gerard Hutchinson […]
Tattered teddies: An interactive handbook about the awareness and prevention of suicide in children
Tattered Teddies has been designed to provide information and to allow you, the readers, to engage with, and uniquely apply the knowledge to the children in your care. The content within Tattered Teddies provides current research and strategies for intervention with children at risk of suicide.
River of life: Aboriginal youth suicide workshop
The River of Life workshop is designed to provide information and interventions for caregivers working with youth at risk of suicide aged fifteen to twenty-four.
Namwayut: A pathway to reconciliation
Reconciliation belongs to everyone. In this profound book, Chief Robert Joseph, globally recognized peacebuilder and Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk People, traces his journey from his childhood surviving residential school to his present-day role as a leader who inspires individual hope, collective change, and global transformation. Before we get to know where we are going, […]
Midnight storm moonless sky: Indigenous horror stories
Blackfoot storyteller Alexander Soop plunges us into a shocking well of imagination in his debut collection of short stories, Midnight Storm Moonless Sky. From hauntings on the Highway of Tears to fearful gatherings of ghosts and the sorrows of racism, Soop combines the social anxieties of Indigenous life with spellbinding flights and frights of speculative […]
Feeling good: The new mood therapy
From renowned psychiatrist Dr. David D. Burns, the revolutionary volume that popularized Dr. Aaron T. Beck’s cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and has helped millions combat feelings of depression and develop greater self-esteem. Anxiety and depression are the most common mental illnesses in the world, affecting 18% of the U.S. population every year. But for many, the […]
Reasons to stay alive
Like nearly one in five people, Matt Haig suffers from depression. Reasons to Stay Alive is Matt’s inspiring account of how, minute by minute and day by day, he overcame the disease with the help of reading, writing, and the love of his parents and his girlfriend (and now-wife), Andrea. And eventually, he learned to appreciate life […]
What it takes to make it through: Stories of suicide resilience & loss.
A Storybook Project Initiative from the ASR Suicide Studies Collective at St. Michael’s Hospital. A collection of stories by those with lived experience of suicide loss and suicide.
Indigenous writes: A guide to First Nations, Metis & Inuit issues in Canada
In Indigenous Writes, Chelsea Vowel, legal scholar, teacher, and intellectual, opens an important dialogue about these (and more) concepts and the wider social beliefs associated with the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada. In 31 essays, Chelsea explores the Indigenous experience from the time of contact to the present, through five categories—Terminology of Relationships; Culture and […]
The skin we’re in: A year of black resistance and power
Month-by-month, Cole creates a comprehensive picture of entrenched, systemic inequality. Urgent, controversial, and unsparingly honest, The Skin We’re In is destined to become a vital text for anti-racist and social justice movements in Canada, as well as a potent antidote to the all-too-present complacency of many white Canadians.
Developing and maintaining practical archives: A how-to-do-it manual. 2nd ed.
Library Journal and other review journals raved about the first edition of this now-standard guide. This new edition has been completely updated ad expanded to include crucial new information on digital records, encoded arcival description (EAD), copyright issues, post-9/11 security concerns, international perspectives on tuse issues–content that makes this manual essential for archivists of all […]
No bad parts: Healing trauma & restoring wholeness with the internal family systems model
Is there just one “you”? We’ve been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can’t control the inner voices that don’t match the ideal of who we think we should be. Yet Dr. Richard Schwartz’s research now challenges this “mono-mind” theory. “All of us are born […]
Rethinking suicide: Why prevention fails, and how we can do better
An examination of how suicide prevention efforts largely fail due to the mistaken assumption that greater mental health awareness is the key to saving lives. Over the last two decades, the US suicide rate has steadily grown despite extensive awareness campaigns, wide implementation of suicide prevention programs and initiatives, and increased mental health advocacy. To […]
One Friday in April: A story of suicide and survival
As the sun lowered in the sky one Friday afternoon in April 2006, acclaimed author Donald Antrim found himself on the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building, afraid for his life. In this moving memoir, Antrim vividly recounts what led him to the roof and what happened after he came back down: two hospitalizations, weeks […]
Suicide prevention
The current suicide public health crisis and advances in clinical practice have increased the need for clear, evidence-informed guidance on suicide prevention in healthcare. This clinical suicide prevention handbook is an essential resource for mental health and primary care professionals, and any practitioner aiming to ensure their practice is up-to-date, patient-centred and consistent with the […]
Object-based learning and well-being: Exploring material connections
Object-Based Learning and Well-Being provides the first explicit analysis of the combined learning and well-being benefits of working with material culture and curated collections. Following on from the widely acclaimed Engaging the Senses, this volume explicitly explores the connection between the value of material culture for both learning and well-being. Bringing together experts and practitioners from eight […]
The skin we’re in: A year of Black resistance and power
Both Cole’s activism and journalism find vibrant expression in his first book, The Skin We’re In. Puncturing the bubble of Canadian smugness and naive assumptions of a post-racial nation, Cole chronicles just one year—2017—in the struggle against racism in this country. It was a year that saw calls for tighter borders when Black refugees braved frigid […]
Goodnight Mr. Vincent van Gogh
How do we talk to our young children about suicide? This book offers a gentle way of explaining a loved one’s suicide without sweeping it under the rug. By starting an open and honest conversation with our youth, we can help break down the stigmas and start raising mental health awareness. We need to teach […]
Unreconciled: Family, truth, and Indigenous resistance
Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples. Jesse Wente remembers the exact moment he realized that he was a certain kind of Indian–a stereotypical cartoon Indian. He was playing […]
Mentally health communities: Aboriginal perspectives
The purpose of the current collection of papers is to promote dialogue on what may contribute to mentally healthy communities, with a focus on Aboriginal Peoples’ perspectives, recognizing the diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis groups. With the present set of papers, the Canadian Population Health Initiative (CPHI) continues to build on the momentum […]
When it is darkest: Why people die by suicide and what we can do to prevent it
Suicide is baffling and devastating in equal measures, and it can affect any one of us: one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Yet despite the scale of the devastation, for family members and friends, suicide is still poorly understood. Drawing on decades of work in the field of suicide prevention and research, and […]
Advancing suicide research.
This is a one-stop book for anyone who wants an overview of the research approaches and issues concerning suicide. Leading researchers provide a comprehensive toolbox of the current best practices in suicide research, showing you how to conduct high-quality research using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods in suicide prevention from a public health perspective. Other aspects […]
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