Suicide Prevention Awareness Month & Mental Health Resources: Library Resources

This book highlights the current epidemiology of suicide among children and adolescents, as well as identifying important risk factors.

Stories drawn from her practice, Mecke also describes the instigators in larger scale suicides and those of historical figures. This is a must-read for clinicians, counselors, and anyone interested in knowing about suicide and its causes.

This book gives insight into what, for many, has long been incomprehensible, while showing those who may be grappling with suicidal thoughts that they are not along and that the desire to kill oneself is almost alway avoidable.

The military suicide rate had been rising steadily for three consecutive years; the initial assumption that we were simply experiencing a few bad years had dissolved, and an uncomfortable recognition that we had a clear problem on our hands had taken hold.

Provides basic information for teens about facts and statistics related to suicide, including procedures and risks involved in treatment, preventing, surviving, dealing with depression, along with facts about suicide death.

Every 18 minutes, there is a suicide attempt somewhere in the United States, with some 30,000 of those resulting in completed suicides each year. Worldwide, there are more than 1 million suicides annually. The author offfers approaches that can be used to alter tendencies and thinking for the person at risk.

This book is recommended for students and practicing professionals (in medicine psychiatry nursing psychiatric nursing psychology counselling teaching social work the military police paramedics etc.) and other first responders volunteers or outreach workers who are confronted with situations where they have to assist people who are known or suspected of being suicidal.

This handbook provides a comprehensive summary of the most important and exciting advances in our understanding of suicide and self-injury and our ability to predict and prevent it.

This book looks at programs for suicide prevention; barriers to effective treatment and intervention, along with research and promising approaches

This book concerns transforming despair and its powerful pull toward suicide into a meaningful alternative: discovering the courage to live and finding meaning in life.