Suicide

Reports on the scarcity of bereavement support training for those assisting family and friends of the victims of suicide.

Looks at various collaborative care models and interviews administrators, clinicians, and Inuit families about expectations for mental health services and care.

Comments on a compelling and thought-provoking carving entitled The Suicide. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 20.

Extensive and detailed teacher's guide to accompany a graphic novel aimed at suicide prevention in youth and young adults. The comic book is produced by the Healthy Aboriginal Network.

Through 20 in-depth interviews project gathered information on socio-cultural context, state of mental health and well-being during process, and supports which were relied upon.

Outlines the research process, key challenges and lessons learned in a collaborative First Nations suicide prevention project conducted with eight north-western Manitoba First Nations communities.

Overview of system developed by the White Mountain Apache Tribe with assistance from John Hopkins Center for American Indian Health.

Looks into 6 suicides in a span of 3 months in an isolated northern Manitoba First Nations community.

Looks at providing social services to people living in remote Arctic communities of the Northwest Territories.

Study shows that psychiatric issues in the Arctic appear to be connected to interpersonal, socioeconomic and societal changes.

Looks at the community readiness model for assessing the level of readiness for development of prevention or intervention programing.

Discusses the creation of a confidential listening and crisis intervention Help Line program to deal with the community's high suicide rate.

Public Policy Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2007.

Community Health Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Manitoba, 2008.

Study conducted to describe characteristics of those who had died, identify antecedents and correlates and determine if those at high risk could be identified by nonspecialist health care professionals.

Identifies risk factors such as culture and intergenerational trauma and ways to lessen poor health outcomes resulting in suicide.

Examines a history of suicide and the role of medicine men in preventing this behaviour.

Presents a developmental framework.

Looks at the increasing Indigenous suicide rate and suggests that the current approach to prevention is not working.

Study concludes that clinical primary care approaches are more reactive than preventive.

Study shows that single, unemployed Alaska Natives, who had not completed high school, were most at risk.

Psychiatry Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2007.

Study found being female and substance abuse as several of the variables to be associated with an increased likelihood in suicide.

Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2009.

Discusses the problems of isolation and problems in single resource communities.

Series of 15 short videos (approx. 5 min. each) on a variety of topics.

Argues that the legal system operating in Queensland, Australia was not dealing appropriately with the problems in Aboriginal communities and as a result there was uncontrolled violence.

Draws upon report to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) regarding the Canadian Aboriginal experience with the trauma of suicide to develop Australian crisis services.

Copy of Appendix 1 of Choosing Life: Special Report on Suicide Among Aboriginal People. Concerns identified in report apply to Australian Aboriginal suicide.

Nursing Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2014.

Ethnic Studies (M.A.)--Colorado State University, 2016.

Examines personal variables and situational demands and how these play a role in the coping process of suicide.

Psychology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Calgary, 1999.

Response to an article which equates suicide with 'destructive rage and self-destructive withdrawal' and does not provide any alternative perspectives.

Discusses why some Aboriginal communities are free of suicide while others have an epidemic. Chapter 10 from Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis.

Authors examine the comparatively low suicide rate among the Unangax, an Indigenous group in Alaska, and the protective factors that are at play in their communities in order to make recommendations for suicide prevention strategies; advocate for culturally relevant and identity affirming mental health services.

Examines some of the root causes of mental illness among marginalized, disenfranchised and poor populations.

Studies the strategies and programs for suicide prevention in various American Indian/Alaska Native communities and offers policy-change recommendations based on each communities needs.

Compares dominant prevention-intervention models and American Indian perceptions of suicide.

Paper presented at the Symposium on the Politics of Race, Culture, and Health, Ithaca College, Nov. 13-14, 2002.

Comments on the high suicide rate among Aboriginal youth and argues that reducing the rate is the responsibility of the entire community.

Looks at the success of programs that are community-based and involve active partnerships across sectors.

Chapter 3 of series looks at the health care system including limitations in decision making and governance. Duration: 5:52.

Brief overview of the unique contextual factors underlying the mental health challenges faced by First Nations and Inuit communities.

Two individuals describe their experiences with addiction at a STREAM (Saskatchewan Team for Research and Evaluation of Addictions Treatment and Mental Health Services) meeting. Followed by a question and answer period. Duration: 59:25. Presented as part of project headed by Dr. Colleen Dell, University of Saskatchewan Research Chair in Substance Abuse.

Discusses the social disintegration of an Innu settlement and the possible causes. Classroom lesson plan to accompany segment on DVD News in Review. March, 1993.

Focusses on rash of suicides in the village of Povungnituk, Nunavik. Duration: 17:18.

Discusses problems training health workers to recognize changes in behavior and personality.