AAS: American Association of Suicidology
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Beefed up inpatient/outpatient care transition is key to suicide prevention
Suicide risk is increased 300-fold during first week after inpatient psychiatric discharge.
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Ringing the alarm about black youth suicide
“Black youth, relative to white youth, do not receive treatment for depression, which may be a precursor issue,” Dr. Michael A. Lindsey.
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ARBs didn't raise suicide risk in large VA study
The VA study thus fails to confirm the results of an earlier Canadian, population-based, nested case-control study.
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Novel program for preventing addiction-related suicide
The group intervention is designed for a population at high risk for suicide.
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COVID-19: No U.S. spike expected in pandemic-related suicidal ideation
Big Data analysis of real-time Crisis Text Line experience offers encouragement.
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Suicide prevention gets ‘standard care’ recommendations
The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention has released the first standard care recommendations for suicide prevention.
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U.S. public largely ignores firearm access and suicide completion link
More than half of U.S. suicide deaths are caused by firearms, but overall, the public does not view enhanced firearm safety as a way to cut...
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Formula gets high marks for predicting suicide risk among Apache youth
If validated, the new model will become part of the suicide surveillance system at the White Mountain Apache Tribe Reservation in Arizona.
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Suicide prevention starts with the patient’s narrative
An effective treatment and management approach to suicide prevention starts with engagement and listening to the patient’s narrative.
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U.S. youth suicide prevention saved nearly 900 lives
WASHINGTON – Data from a U.S. grant program aimed at reducing youth suicides showed this funding was linked with 882 fewer suicide deaths than...
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Is medical aid in dying suicide?
WASHINGTON – The American Association of Suicidology issued a 2017 statement that medical aid in dying is not suicide. Two experts debate whether...
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Suicidality assessment of people with autism needs better tools
Challenges in communication faced by people with autism produces barriers to their assessment for depression and suicidality.
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VIDEO: National suicide hotline could result from pending U.S. law
A bill pending in Congress would assess the feasibility of a national “N11” number for suicide interventions and mental health crises.
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Therapy targets ICU ‘teachable moment’ of suicide-attempt survivors
WASHINGTON – A brief conversation with suicide-attempt survivors while they are in the ICU may help them wrap their head around what happened.
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Suicide prevention, NRA team up for safer gun storage
WASHINGTON –