Definition
- Credo Reference-Suicide PreventionSuicide prevention includes steps taken by a government or non-governmental agency to work toward reducing the number of suicides and the overall rate of suicide. Actions may include forming self-help groups, leading individuals to mental health professionals who can provide assistance, creating and advertising suicide hotlines and public service announcements, and taking other steps. Some groups concentrate on preventing suicides and suicidal behaviors in adolescents while other groups concentrate on helping other targeted groups, such as military veterans. In contrast, other organizations try to help everyone who may be suicidal. Many people still commit suicide every year but without such prevention groups, it is likely that the numbers would be higher still.
Suicide Prevention for Colleges and Universities
- Suicide Prevention for Colleges and UniversitiesJED Campus is a nationwide initiative of The Jed Foundation designed to empower schools with a framework and customized support to promote the emotional well-being of students, reduce suicide and serious substance abuse and build communities where students can learn and thrive.
Books
College Student Suicide
Here is the first single book to exclusively address this tragic behavior. From the foreword by Dr. C. Everett Koop to the final conclusions and recommendations, College Student Suicide serves as both a primer and a state-of-the-art volume on youth suicide in the higher education setting. Experts provide important data on suicide, examine the risk factors for suicide, and explore preventive interventions and the delivery of other necessary services. Highly valuable reading for the entire college or university community, this major new book is particularly recommended for college and university faculty and administrators, residence hall directors, residence assistants, health center staff, parents of college students, and students themselves.
Suicide Prevention in Schools
Argues that schools have a much larger role to play in the prevention of suicide among children and adolescents than they have generally undertaken hitherto. Sets out various ways in which teachers can detect suicidal tendencies and make appropriate interventions.
If You Feel Too Much
The New York Times Bestseller In 2006 Jamie Tworkowski wrote a story called "To Write Love on Her Arms," about helping a friend through her struggle with drug addiction, depression, and self-injury. The piece was so hauntingly beautiful that it quickly went viral, giving birth to a non-profit organization of the same name. Now, To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) is an internationally recognized leader in suicide prevention and a source of hope, encouragement, and support for people worldwide. If You Feel Too Much is a celebration of hope, wonder, and what it means to be human. From personal stories of struggling on days most people celebrate to words of strength and encouragement in moments of loss, the essays in this book invite readers to believe that it's okay to admit to pain and okay to ask for help. If You Feel Too Much is an important book from one of this generation's most important voices.
Night Falls Fast
From the best-selling author ofAn Unquiet Mind: the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, with a particular focus on its terrible pull on the young.Night Falls Fastis both compelling and timely: in the United States and across the world there has been a frightening surge in suicides committed by children, adolescents and young adults. It is the third major cause of death in 19- to 24-year-olds, and the second in college students. Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, an internationally recognized authority on depressive illnesses and their treatment, knows this subject firsthand. At the age of 28, after years of struggling with manic-depression, she attempted to kill herself. Her survival marked the beginning of a life's work to investigate both mental illness and self-inflicted death.
Youth Suicide
Issues, assessment, and intervention
Suicide Prevention Treatment
- Suicide Prevention TreatmentThere are effective treatments that focus directly on suicidal thoughts and behaviors and these are proven to reduce suicide attempts in people who need this help.
NIMH Experts Discuss Suicide Prevention Strategies
- NIMH Experts Discuss Suicide Prevention StrategiesIn recognition of National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) hosted a livestream event on Wednesday, September 23, 2020, from 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. ET, to discuss the latest in suicide prevention research, including ways to identify risk, and effective prevention strategies. Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., Director of NIMH, moderated this discussion with Jane Pearson, Ph.D., Special Advisor to the NIMH Director on Suicide Research, and Stephen O’Connor, Ph.D., chief of the Suicide Prevention Research Program in the NIMH Division of Services and Intervention Research.
Get Help
Emergency Number
911
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-8255
SAMHSA Treatment Referral Helpline
1-877-726-4727