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Suicide Prevention Awareness Month 2022

My Brains Not Broken

CW: This post discusses suicide. September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month in the United States and every year, I aim to write posts and share information directly related to suicide prevention throughout the month. The suicide rate for males was 3–4 times the rate for females during the 2000–2020 period.

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Women Working In Mental Health Research

MQ Mental Health

of researchers are women, which is why at MQ we are incredibly proud to say we fund male and female researchers equally. Women Working on Preventions and Interventions Dr Susanne Ahmari, (USA) identified brain activity related to Obsessive behaviours, the first step towards developing new treatments for OCD in 2013.

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How to Create a Veterans Suicide Prevention Program

Relias

To address the alarming rates of veteran suicide, it’s imperative to understand the multifaceted nature of the stressors they encounter. To help those veterans how struggle with suicidal ideation, consider creating, or partnering with, a veterans suicide prevention program. Shockingly, suicide rates among U.S.

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Men’s health week

MQ Mental Health

[Trigger warning: this post references suicide]. This week is Men’s Health Week, and on Sunday many of us may be seeing or thinking about our dads for Father’s Day. When it comes to mental health, we know that all too often men tend to suffer in silence while keeping their feelings to themselves. Hope for tomorrow.

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Social Workers Set Sights on Preventing Gun Violence

Beyond Advocacy

Of the 42,654 people who die each year, 16,651 are murdered, and 24,569 commit suicide. Each year, 547 women are killed by their husbands or male dating partners. Of those, 1,130 are murdered, 6,294 survive their gunshot wounds, and 732 die from gun suicide. Every year, 7,957 teenagers and children are shot in the U.S.

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Leaders must foster professional curiosity and challenge to improve child protection, finds review

Community Care

The panel also reiterated messages from its 2021 report on safeguarding babies from male carers , including practitioners not challenging fathers or adult partners about their engagement and accepting at face value mothers’ account of separation from partners. . Long-term reductions in resources for early help and prevention services.

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Native American Healthcare Disparities: Challenges and Solutions

Relias

Heart conditions and diabetes Social determinants of health unique to 5.2 million Native Americans have contributed to health disparities and disease prevalence, such as heart conditions and diabetes. for males and 15.3% Native American and Alaska Native adults have the highest prevalence of diabetes , at 14.9% population.