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• What to look for as a Family Member
• What to do to help as a Family Member
• What researchers are doing of interest to Family Members
• What other resources are available for Family Members

Educational resources are available for individuals who are members of a family unit and interested in finding information on suicide and suicide prevention.

Education is available in the form of for example, a book, pamphlet, course, online tool, or institution.   These resources offer a family member the ability to be informed on the topic of suicide and suicide prevention, the ability to advocate for the individual needs of a family member in need of help, and the ability to encourage protective factors within the family unit.

Protective factors are the things that reduce the potential for suicide and suicidal behaviors.   A few examples of protective factors are:

• Effective and consistent clinical care for mental, physical, and substance use disorders
• Support for help-seeking behaviors
• Restricted access to highly lethal methods of suicide
• Strong connections to family and community support
• Learned skills in problem solving, conflict resolution, and nonviolent handling of disputes

Your family role could be as a parent, younger child, adult child, sister, brother, guardian, aunt, uncle, grandparent, cousin, etc. or you may hold more than one role within your family.  

Every person within a family not only plays a role defined by their age or relation but also defined by how the family interacts, lives, communicates, and behaves.   These different roles require diverse educational resources and the ability to access these resources quickly.   This Web site can help you find the educational suicide prevention resources that you want.

Resources

Internal links can help you to easily locate information that applies to family members and What education is available.   You will find numerous educational resources, like courses and publications, as well as suicide prevention organizations that can be sources of additional educational tools and information.

If you are unable to find the information that you need, please contact the Online Guide.

The following resources are examples of information available for family members in the What education is available area of this Web site.

What education is available: Education resources

Publications

Books

Woolis, R. (1992). When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness: A handbook for family, friends, and caregivers. J .P. Tarcher/Perigee: New York, NY.

Online Educational Tools

Suicide Prevention Action Network (SPAN), USA

SPAN is a national not-for-profit organization that links individuals impacted by suicide with the expertise of leaders in science, business, government and public service to achieve the goal of significantly reducing the national rate of suicide by the year 2010.  

SPAN, USA offers a listing of online tools from SPAN, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, QPR Institute, and the Institute of Medicine.   The listing of online tools is available at the following Web address:

http://www.spanusa.org/Tools.html

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Last Updated: July 2004