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Suicidal thoughts, much like mental health conditions, can affect anyone regardless of age, gender or background. In fact, suicide is often the result of an untreated mental health condition. Suicidal thoughts, although common, should not be considered normal and often indicate more serious issues.
September is Suicide Prevention Month — a time to raise awareness and discuss this highly stigmatized topic. In addition to shifting public perception, we use this month to spread hope and vital information to people affected by suicide. Our goal is ensuring that individuals, friends and families have access to the resources they need to discuss suicide prevention and to seek help.
The 50 Healthiest Habits and Lifestyle Changes
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The 50 Healthiest Habits and Lifestyle Changes provides authoritative, research-based information on habits that are important for everyone, but especially teens and young adults. This easy-to-read book highlights 50 habits for promoting physical as well as mental/emotional and social health.
Crisis : How to Help Yourself and Others in Distress or Danger
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Through media coverage of school shootings, suicides, domestic abuse, workplace violence, and more, we've become accustomed to hearing about violence and trauma - almost invariably followed by reports that show all of the warning signs that were missed. While it is impossible to predict when, where, and with whom a crisis will occur, we do have the means to be better equipped to intervene in stressful situations before they tip over into a crisis.
From Mindfulness to Heartfulness
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As the mindfulness craze has spread in the West it's becoming too commercialized, intellectualized, and diluted. Mindfulness as stress-reducer and attention-enhancer keeps it on a purely cognitive level, missing the emotional, spiritual, and compassionate aspects that have traditionally been an integral part of the practice. In this book (a bestseller in Japan), Murphy-Shigematsu describes what he calls heartfulness, which returns mindfulness to its roots by adding seven additional elements.
The Mood Elevator
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Enjoy the Ride! We all ride the Mood Elevator up and down every day. In this very practical guide, Larry Senn provides an operating manual to keep you out of the emotional basement. He shows how to interrupt negative thought patterns that keep you stuck on a lower floor-depressed, stressed, anxious, judgmental-and move higher by cultivating mental attitudes like curiosity and gratitude.
Pause Breathe Choose
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Naz Beheshti distills the most valuable lessons she learned from her first boss and mentor, Steve Jobs, into a holistic method to live your best life. Presenting the highly effective framework that Beheshti has used with clients for over a decade, this book is a guide for self-discovery, better choices, and purposeful growth.
Pocket therapy for emotional balance : quick DBT skills to manage intense emotions
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In Pocket Therapy for Emotional Balance, three clinical psychologists and authors of The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook offer quick, evidence‑based tips and tools for managing intense emotions in the moment. Using this handy, take-anywhere guide, readers will find freedom from overwhelming thoughts and feelings, find a sense of calm, and live a more balanced life.
Rewriting Our Stories: Education, empowerment, and well-being
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Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment, and Well-being harnesses the therapeutic power of storytelling to convert feelings of fear and powerlessness into affirmative life narratives. This transformational book considers a potent antidote: by recognising our recurring negative stories, we can rewrite and transform them to achieve greater empowerment and well-being in our lives.
Thoughts and feelings : taking control of your moods and your life
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This fully revised and updated fifth edition of Thoughts and Feelings outlines twenty evidence-based techniques you can mix and match to create your own personal treatment plan for overcoming a range of mental health concerns—including worry, panic attacks, depression, low self-esteem, anger, and emotional and behavioral challenges of any kind. Customize your plan to address multiple concerns at once, or troubleshoot the thoughts and feelings that bother you most.
The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health
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An unapologetic exploration of the Black mental health crisis--and a comprehensive road map to getting the care you deserve in an unequal system. Whether you suffer yourself, have a loved one who needs help, or are a mental health professional working with the Black community, this book is an essential and much-needed resource.
Dealing with Suicidal Thoughts
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Between 2006 and 2016, the teen suicide rate in America increased by 70 percent. Suicide has become one of the leading causes of death for American teens, and many young people must contend with their own suicidal thoughts alongside the life-shattering consequences of classmates, friends, and family members dying by suicide. This must-have volume is filled with resources for how to manage depression and suicidal impulses, as well as how to heal from the terrible tragedy of losing someone to suicide.
LGBT teens and suicide risk: How you can help
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The new report, published in JAMA Pediatrics, reveals that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) youth in general are 3 times more likely to make a suicide attempt than other teenagers, and the rate is highest among transgender adolescents-6 times that of their heterosexual peers. The policy statement recommends comprehensive, gender affirming, and developmentally appropriate healthcare for gender diverse teenagers; family therapy; respect for gender identity in health records; appropriate insurance coverage for gender-diverse patients; provider education and training; and community support to promote acceptance of these teenagers.
Preventing Adolescent and Young Adult Suicide: Do States With Greater Mental Health Treatment Capacity Have Lower Suicide Rates?
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Youth suicide is increasing at a significant rate and is the second leading cause of death for adolescents. There is an urgent public health need to address the youth suicide. The objective of this study is to determine whether adolescents and young adults residing in states with greater mental health treatment capacity exhibited lower suicide rates than states with less treatment capacity. Our findings underscore the importance of state-level efforts to improve mental health interventions and promote mental health awareness. However, firearm regulations may provide greater protective effects against this most lethal method of firearm suicide.
Preventing College Student Suicide
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Experts have called for a comprehensive, systemic approach to campus suicide prevention that addresses both at-risk groups and the general campus population. An indispensable resource for vice presidents of student affairs, deans of students, student counselors, and other student services professionals, New Directions for Student Services offers guidelines and programs for aiding students in their total development: emotional, social, physical, and intellectual.
Women's Mental Health : Resistance and Resilience in Community and Society
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This book analyzes systemic problems affecting women's mental health--social inequities, marginalization, racism, and displacement among them--and proposes holistic real-world approaches to practice and policy. Women’s experiences from around the globe are examined including Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, India, Iran, Italy, Ivory Coast, Nepal, Pakistan, Portugal, Rwanda, Senegal, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United States. Together, the chapters in this book deepen our understanding of the intersections of gender, race, culture, age, class, immigration status, and motherhood.
The CI Music Hour: Building Community and Promoting Well-Being Through Music Appreciation
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The Cochlear Implant (CI) Music Hour is a weekly music appreciation session hosted by a major university in the United States. In this mixed methods study, we collected qualitative data from weekly CI Music Hour observations and in-depth interviews, and quantitative data in the form of a self-report on musicianship from sixteen community members. Findings were analyzed using Martin Seligman's five categories of well-being, along with an additional category for negative emotions from the PERMA (Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment)-profiler.
Coming Together in Pain and Joy: A Multicultural and Arts-Based Suicide Awareness Project
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This article describes a two-day arts-based symposium that brought together members from diverse cultural communities including Inuit, Mohawk, Jewish, Christian, Baha’i, South-Asian Canadian, Senior and LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans-gendered, Queer) communities. Through drama, music, art-making and writing, participants explored this difficult subject, expressed complex feelings and shared their perspectives.
Health and Wellness for In-Service and Future Music Teachers: Developing a Self-Care Plan
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Researchers have published an increasing number of reports about undergraduate music students suffering from depression, anxiety, and stress as well as of in-service teachers’ experiences with burnout. Whether an undergraduate music student, a teacher, or a teacher educator, those in our profession need to increase awareness of the prevalence of stress and mental health concerns in music education. Along with presenting information to increase mental health literacy, this article discusses the use of self-care as a form of stress reduction among current and future music educators.
Music and Altered States
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This international collection examines the opportunities for using music-induced states of altered consciousness to promote physical and mental healing, treat substance dependence, and in spiritual and palliative care.
Performing Arts in Suicide Prevention Strategies: A Scoping Review
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Suicide is a leading cause of death all over the world. Suicide prevention is possible and should be pursued through a variety of strategies. The importance of the arts for positive health outcomes has been increasingly evidenced. This scoping review aimed to identify the possible role of the performing arts-defined as a type of art performed through actions such as music, dance, or drama executed alive by an artist or other participant in the presence of an audience,-in suicide prevention programs.
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