Cognitive therapy shown to reduce suicide risk in landmark study RESEARCH UPDATE—Sept. 12, 2005—Attempted suicide is one of the strongest risk factors for suicide deaths in adults. Alarmingly, ...
Tag Archives: suicide prevention
Cultural disparities
Disproportionately high rates of poverty, unemployment, substance abuse and suicide have plagued Native Americans for decades. On some reservations unemployment is as high as 75 percent, and ...
Guns and suicide
Where there are more guns, there are more suicides, the National Research Council (NRC) concluded in a report on firearm policy released last winter. Areas with higher household gun ownership ...
Culture shock
Calling for cultural competency when considering how to prevent suicide They are among a growing cadre of researcher-advocates calling for more “cultural competency” when treating patients who ...
Public health peril
Suicide. Just say the word, and conversation halts. It’s perhaps the last taboo. It’s also sudden. Tragic. Violent. But preventable? And that in claiming 31,655 lives in 2002, suicide is a ...
States seeking services
Moving from planning to action in suicide prevention is no easy task. Yet Mike Hogan would like to pick up the pace. “We’re stuck. It’s like we’re in a car and we’re going 35 miles per hour,” ...
Enormous toll
Suicide exacts an enormous toll from the American people. Our nation loses about 50 percent more Americans to suicide each year than to homicide. Moreover, hundreds of thousands of people receive ...
In his words
To my family: I don’t understand how a loving God would allow my head to be filled with such terrible thoughts all the time. Ever since coming out of the hospital the world has seemed like ...
Not all vets tap VA services
Those working in suicide prevention in the civilian sector shouldn’t assume that the mental health needs of soldiers and veterans are being fully met by the Department of Defense or the ...