“As the incidence of mental health conditions continues to rise in children and adolescents, and these experiences can escalate and entrench over time without appropriate help, the need for early intervention in mental health care is vital. When working with children, play and arts in therapy offer the opportunity for ...
May 22, 2023 • Research Highlight Suicide is a leading cause of death among young people in the United States. Rates of youth suicide deaths were rising before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began, so it is critical to understand how the pandemic impacted this public health crisis. In a new ...
Content warning: mentions of suicide This blog was written by Moritz Herle, a lecturer in psychology at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, and newly an MQ Fellow. His research focuses on the development of eating behaviours, childhood weight ...
TW: This post discusses suicide and suicide-related topics “Suicide doesn’t end the chances of life getting worse, it eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better” (unknown) An unfortunate circumstance, suicide is a terrible, global anomaly from which 700,000-800,000 people die each year worldwide. Additionally, for every person who has ...
WARNING: This story contains frank discussions about suicide.Cards of condolences still grace the Gibennus home.It’s barely been three weeks since Ken Gibennus took his own life. Ken’s parents Bob and Peggy are devastated because of how much he suffered.“The last few years have been really hell for him,” Bob said. ...
Suicide is one of the most misunderstood and stigmatized of human experiences. We need a call to arms, not in the sense of weapons, but rather with people working together. Most suicides result from a combination of two things: a mental condition—depression, bipolar disorder, posttraumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, moral ...
Michigan’s largest conference on suicide prevention will be held this month in Plymouth. The Kevin’s Song 7th Annual Conference on Suicide is set for January 26 through January 28. Coordinator Leo Nouhan tells us there will be hundreds of mental health professionals, educators, first responders, and survivors on hand. “We’re ...
The study came about after Barzilay, Zandberg, and Waller recognized an overlap in their research interests. Zandberg investigates how reproductive care limits affect gender inequity, while Barzilay investigates the elements that influence a person's mental health trajectory and suicide risk. Waller is interested in environmental stressors that affect parents and, ...
At 6'4" and with an eye-popping vertical leap, Oyiti Amum was flying high.Studying in the United States on a scholarship worth thousands, he was doing what he loved — playing basketball.He was a world away from his home in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne and war-torn South Sudan, where his family ...
In Nigeria, the rate of suicide has increased drastically in the past few years. Cases of failed and successful suicide attempts proliferate and have become bothersome. In the last two years, no fewer than 80 cases of suicide were reported in Nigeria. According to the World Health Organisation, suicide is ...
