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Adolescent Suicide: Speaking Up for Our Children

…e your knowledge of teen suicide. Quick facts for parents about adolescent suicide: 1. Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the United States ages 15-24, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). 2. Approximately 3% of adolescents engage in medically serious suicide attempts. These suicide attempts often predate serious, overlooked, or untreated mental illnesses. Typically occurring mental…

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Addiction: The Causes of Abuse and Dependence And How to Break the Cycle

…what is going on for them, and recognize the signs that it is time to seek help. Warning signs that drinking or substance use needs professional treatment include: Recurring binge drinking, or drinking or using to excess. An inability to leave unfinished alcohol behind (for example, a person without alcohol dependence may leave wine served with a meal unfinished; a person with a dependence problem is unable to leave unfinished alcohol behind) Feel…

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Live Through This: ​​​​​​Using True Stories to Help Stop Suicide

Watch Now: In this Webinar: Join Dese’Rae L. Stage, photographer, writer, suicide awareness activist, and the creator behind the groundbreaking project Live Through This in a free one-hour Webinar to discuss the many faces of suicide, in order to decrease stigma and promote healing. Desa’Rae’s work takes true stories of suicide attempt survivors out of the shadows in a mission to show those struggling that they are not alone and that there is hop…

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Save a Life

…d crisis centers around the world. The Glendon Association’s “Save a Life” Dr. Lisa Firestone’s “The Warning Signs of Suicide” &“Suicide: How You Can Help Someone at Risk” Washington Post’s Pulling loved ones out of the lure of suicide Suicide Prevention Resource Center American Psychological Association American Association of Suicidology American Foundation for Suicide Prevention National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Suicide Prevention Action Net…

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Suicide Prevention

…e Thoughts (FAST) and the Firestone Assessment of Violent Thoughts (FAVT). Dr. Firestone has published numerous professional articles, and most recently was the co-author of Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships (APA Books, 2006), Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice (New Harbinger, 2002), and Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion: The Wisdom of Psychotherapy (APA Books, 2003). An accomplished and much requested lecturer, she represents the Glen…

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What We Need to Know to Prevent Suicide

…ested in a longer, more in-depth presentation on suicide prevention, watch Dr. Lisa Firestone’s archived CE Webinar “Suicide: What Therapists Need to Know.” All Webinars are provided by The Glendon Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and enhancing mental health. To support this Webinar series, you can make a donation to The Glendon Association by clicking here In this Webinar: In this free Webinar, Dr. Lisa Firestone te…

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It’s Not Easy to Be Objective About Suicide

…is a new program that includes any face submitted into a Putting a Face on Suicide photomontage for use in promoting this project. It has quickly established itself as the signature look of this project. I literally stumbled upon this site about eight months ago, and I was very much impressed by how the almost taboo subject of suicide is opening discussed – and with so much caring for the survivors. Since then my son’s photo has been included in t…

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The Critical Inner Voice Defined

…Inner Voice with your father, Dr. Robert W. Firestone, and Joyce Catlett? Dr. Lisa Firestone: After years of therapy practice, we could see how much our patientsgained from a deeper understanding of their critical inner voice, and we wanted to make it available to the general public. The goal is to help individuals gain an awareness of the critical inner voice that causes us to fall short of our capabilities and prevents us from living the life w…

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Suicide Prevention

…idal Person Helper Tasks – How You Can Help Someone Who’s Suicidal Suicide: The Warning Signs Suicide: How You Can Help Someone at Risk Busting the Myths About Suicide…

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Saving Lives From Suicide: Two-Part CE Webinar

…uicidal ideation and behavior. This two-part CE webinar with suicidologist Dr. Lisa Firestone will provide an opportunity for therapists to become familiar with risk assessment and effective crisis interventions, as well as empirically validated, evidence-based treatments for suicide that are fast becoming the standard of care.   Learning Objectives: Discuss how to implement state of the art crisis intervention for suicidal patients Identify a num…

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