Suicide prevention
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Various suicide prevention strategies have been used:
- Promoting mental resilience through optimism and connectedness.
- Education about suicide, including risk factors, warning signs and the availability of help.
- Increasing the proficiency of health and welfare services at responding to people in need. This includes better training for health professionals and employing crisis counselling organizations.
- Reducing domestic violence and substance abuse are long-term strategies to reduce many mental health problems.
- Reducing access to convenient means of suicide (e.g. toxic substances, handguns).
- Reducing the quantity of dosages supplied in packages of non-prescription medicines e.g. aspirin.
- Interventions targeted at high-risk groups.
- Research. (see below)
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Suicide Prevention Research
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A psychosocial-psychoeducational group therapeutic intervention for recurrent suicide attempters is being developed through research at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The program involves a combination of open discussion of the daily lived experience of individuals who have made repeated suicide attempts, and teaching new skills that can be used to "stay safe". Participants in this program are taught things that can be used in their everyday lives, from "basic personal rights" to self-soothing, setting boundaries in interpersonal relationships, distraction tactics, problem solving strategies, and the all important idea that distress felt in the moment, no matter how unendurable, is not permanent but an experience that will pass. The goal of the program is to provide a supportive environment in which skills used each week are met with praise from fellow participants and the facilitators, hopefully leading to an increase in participants abilities to weather emotional crises without resorting to potentially lethal actions.
Bergmans, Yvonne; Links, Paul S. (December 2002). "A description of a psychosocial/psychoeducational intervention for persons with recurrent suicide attempts". Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 23, 156-160.
Journals of Suicide Prevention Research
- Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention (http://www.hhpub.com/journals/crisis/1997/)
- Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior; New York - Guilford Publications, Inc
Suicide Prevention Organizations
- Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (http://www.thesupportnetwork.com/CASP/main.html)
- SAVE Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (http://www.save.org/)
- Centre for Suicide Prevention in Canada (http://www.suicideinfo.ca/)
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (http://www.afsp.org/)
- The Samaritans in the UK (http://www.samaritans.org)
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