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Suicide…Despair? For Someone to Talk to in Confidence.

Suicide Survivor Support Group

The Right to Die With Dignity (Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 587)

Safe Place: For Those Who Have Lost a Friend or Family Member Through Suicide

Gun Control: One Way to Save Lives (Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 536)

Helplines: Special Issue-Suicide

Discusses several aspects of suicide, especially as it is presented by those calling Contact Teleministries Helplines. Topics include epidemiology, especially age & sex differences; some reasons why people commit suicide (loss of hope, lack of communication with significant others, & serious illness); 7 facts & myths about suicide; clues to suicide; & how to help […]

N.C.S.A. Suicide Prevention Program

Ray of Hope, Inc.: A Self-Help Organization for Coping With Suicide

Suicide and Self-Help: Do It Yourself Guidelines

Suicide: how to Understand and Answer a cry for Help

Not Just a Skinny Kid: The Anorexic or Bulimic Teenager

The Alberta Institute for Suicide Research: Report of the Suicide Research Centre Planning Committee to the Suicide Prevention Provincial Advisory Committee. Volume II

This work includes the 16 appendices amending the initial volume. Topics covered include current research in Alberta, recommendations of the Report of the Task Force on Suicide (Boldt Report), development of the University of Calgary Library collection and the activities of the Suicide Prevention Provincial Advisory Committee & its related programs.(DD)

The Alberta Institute for Suicide Research: Report of the Suicide Research Centre Planning Committee to the Suicide Prevention Provincial Advisory Committee. Volume 1

Helping You Helps Me: A Guide Book for Self-Help Groups

This volume is a practical guide to starting & maintaining a self-help group. Leadership, membership, recruitment, fund-raising, problem-solving & decision-making are among the more than twenty topics covered.

Unemployment and Northern Initiatives

Fund Raising: It Begins With Education

Friends in Need

The article is a moving portrayal of one family’s grief & recovery following their son’s death by suicide. A support group, the Compassionate Friends, offered the release and environment needed for healing. The family is honest & open about their thoughts & feelings.

Ways of Intervening With the Psychotic Individual in the Community

Survivors of Serious Illness

Caring for the American Indian Patient

A nurse who is a Cherokee explains some of the Indian values that relate to health care. While each tribe has its own customs, there are core cultural beliefs held by all American Indians.

Target: Outside World

Physical and psychological wounds must heal if the amputee, civilian or soldier, is to make a successful transition from hospital to everyday living.

A Nurse for Suicidal Patients

Dialysis Ambivalence: A Matter of Life and Death