Find suicide prevention resources dedicated to visible minorities.
| AlterNet - Breaking the Silence on Black Suicide - http://www.alternet.org/story/12837/ Earl Ofari Hutchinson writes that Black leaders and parents still operate under the notion that black youths just don't commit suicide. - [Read more] |
| Black Male Suicide Rates Increase - http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/333/8014/347512.html Read this news report that revelas that guns were used in 54 percent of all black suicides in that age group in 1979 and in 74 percent by 1997. - [Read more] |
| Black Star News - Black Suicide Rate Surges - http://blackstarnews.com/?c=135&a=2870 Chris Stevenson writes about the suicide of his father's friend, and reports that from 1980-95, suicides from Black males 15-19 increased 105%. Read for details. - [Read more] |
| Black Suicide Survey Finds Faith, Family Keep Rate Low - http://www.nopcas.com/articles/article_details.php?post_id=10 Reveals new research shows that support from friends, family and faith provides a powerful buffer against suicide in the Black community, especially among those 65 and older, the age group with the highest suicide rate in the nation. - [Read more] |
| Black youth suicide: literature review with a focus on prevention - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2204709&dopt=Abstract Provides an abstract of a study by F.M. Baker of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. - [Read more] |
| Cultural Considerations in Treating Asians With Depression - http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/depression/minorities_11.asp Stanley Sue, PhD, reports that Asians underutilize mental health services much more than other populations. Browse this HealthyPlace.com resource. - [Read more] |
| Depression in Racial / Ethnic Minorities - http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/depression/minorities.asp HealthyPlace.com article reveals that minorities with depression face barriers to getting help. Read for details. - [Read more] |
| Examining Depression Among African-American Women - http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/depression/minorities_8.asp Barbara Jones Warren, in this HealthyPlace.com resource, addresses this topic from a psychiatric mental health nursing perspective. - [Read more] |
| Fighting the 'blues' in African-Americans - http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/depression/minorities_9.asp Article notes the average black person, in America, is more likely than an average white person to suffer depression. View this HealthyPlace.com resource. - [Read more] |
| Health of Minority Women, The - http://www.4woman.gov/owh/pub/minority/concerns.htm Report offers a section dealing with suicide and depression in U.S. minority women. - [Read more] |
| Hidden Disease, A: In Older Blacks, Depression Often Goes Untreated - http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/depression/minorities_6.asp Notes research has found that there may be a reluctance on the part of black people to take antidepressants, to understand depressive symptoms, or to admit to having depression. - [Read more] |
| How Do Hispanics Experience Depression? - http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/depression/minorities_10.asp Browse to become familiar with this guide from HealthyPlace.com. - [Read more] |
| Myth About Black Men and Suicide, The - http://blackvoices.aol.com/black_lifestyle/health_headlines_features_advice/canvas/feature_article/_a/the-myth-about-black-men-and-suicide/20060206102309990001 Patrick Taliaferro pens this article, detailing that one of the most pervasive and damaging falsehoods within and outside of the African American community is that Black men don’t commit suicide. Read for details. - [Read more] |
| New York Times - Suicide in 2 Ethnic Groups Is Topic at Assembly Hearing - http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/nyregion/08suicide.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Reports "young Hispanic women and elderly Asian women are at exceptionally high risk of attempting or committing suicide, mental health experts and advocates testified at a State Assembly hearing." - [Read more] |
| NOPCAS - Statistics - http://www.nopcas.com/stats/ Reveals statistics show that roughly 5.7 per 100,000 African American deaths are certified as suicide-a rate of 5 each day. - [Read more] |
| Office of Minority Health, The - Suicides - http://www.omhrc.gov/templates/content.aspx?ID=2929 Reveals that the suicide rate among African Americans ages 10-14 increased 233 percent while the rate for Whites increased 120 percent. - [Read more] |
| Pacific News Services - Hiding the Pain: Suicides High Among Asian Immigrant Women - http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=3b5ac82483a16d2e4e2eb28b46655ab6 Reports "Chinese American women have the highest suicide rates of all racial and ethnic groups nationwide." - [Read more] |
| Paradoxes of Black Suicide - http://www.nopcas.com/articles/article_details.php?post_id=8 See this National Organization for People of Color Against Suicide reprint of a publication by Donna Holland Barnes, Ph.D. and Carl C. Bell, MD. - [Read more] |
| Recognizing Depression and Suicide Risk in Black Men - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5070636 Listen to a NPR radio interview where Tony Cox discusses the issue with Dr. Alvin Poussaint of Harvard Medical School and with John Head, author of "Standing in the Shadows: Understanding and Overcoming Depression in Black Men." - [Read more] |
| Risk factors for suicide attempts among African American women - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10999241&dopt=Abstract Read an abstract of this study published by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia. - [Read more] |
| Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among ethnic minority groups in England - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16168159&dopt=Abstract Read an abstract of this NCBI study that is based on the results of a national household survey. - [Read more] |
| Suicide Among Black Youths -- United States, 1980-1995 - http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00051591.htm Read this report published by the Center for Disease Control. See editorial notes and references. - [Read more] |
| Suicide among foreign-born minorities and Native Swedes - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9015871&dopt=Abstract Provides an epidemiological follow-up study of a defined population. See this NCBI resource. - [Read more] |
| Suicides in ethnic minorities within 12 months of contact with mental health services - http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/183/2/155 Read an abstract of this study that was published by The British Journal of Psychiatry. - [Read more] |
| Temporal distribution of black suicides, The - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14723421&dopt=Abstract Indiana University reseatch has found that uicides by both white and black groups in 1998-2002 peaked on Mondays but the peak was less pronounced for black suicides than for white suicides. - [Read more] |
| Toronto Star - Suicide points to black women's plight - http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1165489689269&call_pageid=968867505381&col=969048872038 Reports "racism, stigma, stereotypes regarding motherhood and poverty make support unreachable, new research shows." - [Read more] |
| Truth About Black Teen Suicide, The - http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/depression/minorities_7.asp Read this article by Dwan "Telly" Carter offered by HealthyPlace.com - [Read more] |
| Young black suicide numbers shoot up - http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2002/090502/research.html Trinh Tran offers a report of a study by Sean Joe, assistant research professor at the School of Social Work. - [Read more] |
