Suicide

Comments that due to the ongoing tragedy of Indigenous adolescent suicide in Australia all possible interventions should be considered including life-promoting programs.

Describes unique system created by the tribe to track and triage deaths, attempts, and ideation, and the community programming developed to identify at-risk youth and increase coping skills and resiliency. Analysis of the data collected showed that the age-adjusted suicide rates had decreased from 40 to 24.7 per 100,000.

Interviews with 21 youth discovered that maintaining social and cultural connections was crucial to mental wellbeing.

Looks at population, tribal economies, tribal lands, public safety and security, energy on tribal lands, housing and infrastructure, forestry, health disparities, and education.

Examines how participants understand the roots of their depression, what they do about their depression, and how formal service provision might better respond to their needs.

Delves into an epidemiologic study of depression and suicide in Native American adolescents. Article located by scrolling to page 81.

Community driven approach on a small (13) sample group indicate interventions do result in a reduction in negative thinking, depression and suicidal thoughts.

Psychology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Calgary, 2002.

Looks at the high rate of First Nations suicide and discusses a strategy to take constructive action to address suicidal behavior.

Studies socioeconomic status in relation to hospital admissions and mortality rates.

"The author discusses his experience with Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, charged with writing a history of the residential school system for First Nations students in Canada and with producing an archive accessible to both scholarly researchers and the public."

Researcher discusses his current projects including, aging and connecting with Elders and how communities maintain cultural continuity. Duration: 36:45.

Mental health resource developed for the Daughter Spirit in Action program, a National Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Strategy demonstration project.

Book review of: Dying from Improvement by Sherene H. Razack.

Model illustrates how wellbeing is influenced by the inter-relationship between risk, protective and environmental factors.

Comments on the correlation between suicide, alcohol, and substance abuse as well as unemployment and poverty.

"A Comparative cross-jurisdictional analysis of the literature on services, program models, and best practices in mental health, with a focus on interdisciplinary, intersectoral approaches emphasizing Inuit youth."

Commentary concerning independent consultation to various levels of Australian government.

Introduction to the papers in this supplement, some of which were presented at Creating Futures: Influencing the Social Determinants of Mental Health and Wellbeing in Rural, Indigenous and Island Peoples held in Cairns, September 2006.

Introduction to journal articles raising awareness about Indigenous youth. To access this article, scroll to page 4.

Introduction to journal issue featuring articles on diabetes, the San people in South Africa, the Lao PDR, suicide among the Inuit youth and Aboriginal affairs in Australia. To access this article, scroll down to page 4.

Introduces the articles in this issue which focus on the area of prevention and mental health promotion.

Looks at suicide rates in Inuit Nunangat from 1989 to 2003 using socio-cultural characteristics from the Census and Aboriginal Peoples Survey to compare community elements. Scroll down to page 77 to read article.

Comments on a youth wellness intervention model that demonstrates positive outcomes for the participants.

Looks at the achievements and immediate impacts of 47 Māori community projects funded by the Waka Hourua Māori and Pasifika Suicide Prevention fund.

Collection of reports describing what is happening with youth in each Elders' community and what actions they are taking to help prevent tragedy.

Review of literature dealing with consultation found that traditional model had limitations and openness to other ways of thought, cultural competence and understanding of social factors were needed.

Book review of: Endangered Peoples Of The Arctic: Struggles to Survive and Thrive edited by Milton M. R. Freeman.

Designed to help welfare workers and care providers play an effective role in the prevention of suicide among children and youth.

Describes program that promotes protective factors such as connectedness to adults, peers, and self to further youth occupational aspirations, initiative and goal attainment.

Paper examines the literature on the incidence of suicide with special attention to adolescents in Canadian Aboriginal communities, reviews the factors historically thought to place Aboriginal youth at risk for suicide, and explores the need for future research.

Looks at all suicides which occurred in Alaska between September 2003 and August 2006.

Looks at the demographics and methods. Chapter 4 from Psychology in the South Pacific: Global, Local and Glocal Applications edited by F. H. Bolitho, S. C. Carr and B. M. O'Reilly.

Review analyzes how the automobile is associated with the unnatural present.

Argues that the high incidence of suicide and pathological behaviour are manifestations of the reserve system and notes comparable incidence in USA.

Report shows the youth and community members perceived the Hip Hop Projects very positively and that these projects provide important opportunities for youth in Nunavut.

Discusses workshop where Tłįchǫ youth explored critical community issues and find solutions together using creative arts.

Participant interviews describe how the Program significantly changed their lives in constructive and positive manners.

Comments on the effects of unemployment.

Bases on responses gathered from key informants and literature review.

Systematically examines the theoretical underpinnings of historical trauma among Native Americans.

Comments on the eight areas of commitment set out in the Action Plan: focused and active approach to suicide prevention, strengthened continuum of mental health services, youth skills, suicide prevention training, research on suicide and suicide prevention, communication and information sharing, healthy development in early childhood and community development activities.

Looks at engaging young people as knowledgeable collaborators in youth suicide prevention research.

Comments on the suicidal feelings, depression and anxiety experienced by the herders.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Alliant International University, 2005.

Comments on three normative assumptions about standard suicide prevention strategies. Chapter 3 from Critical Suicidology: Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century edited by Jennifer White, Ian Marsh, Michael J. Kral, Jonathan Morris.

Community Health and Epidemiology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2011.

Examines the Facebook posts of at risk Indigenous youth from Ottawa, Ontario and how the platform is used a means to vent to or each out to their peers.

States that the leading cause of death, within this particular group, for females was homicide and for males suicide or overdose.