Resource Types: Report

As a follow-up to the National Strategy, a panel of leading experts from various disciplines, convened to participate in Expanding the Safety Net: A Roundtable on Vulnerability, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Behavior on College Campuses. Co-sponsored by the National Mental Health Association (NMHA)and the Jed Foundation, this roundtable was organized to address the significant impact of suicide on college and university campuses and the need for intervention. Objectives incl. thorough understanding of risk factors and conditions that lead to suicidal ideation and suicidal behavior among college students and to establish a set of strategies that can be implemented to enhance intervention and ultimately reduce the rate of suicide, suicide attempts, and related behavior among college students.

Published as: MMWR 51(03);56-59. This report describes EMS suicide-related responses during November 1999 through October 2000 and indicates that EMS data would be a useful component of an integrated statewide suicidal behavior surveillance system. A chart of rates of suicide deaths and EMS response to noninstitutionalized residents by sex and age group is included.

This paper offers ideas for the roles that evaluation can play in helping foundations ensure that a discussion about sustainability is started early
enough and maintained throughout an initiative.

The purpose of this study was twofold. First, the study obtained baseline measurement rates for the Major Depressive Disorder CPG (the diagnosis codes for depression included non major
depression diagnoses). Second, the study measured Antidepressant Medication
Management using Health Plan Employers Data
and Information Set (HEDIS) 2002 Technical Specifications. MHS (Military Health System) performance rates were compared to rates from HEDIS civilian managed care plans.

This report is the latest publication in the NTAC’s Cultural Diversity Series, which explores the mental health needs of an increasingly diverse nation. The report makes it clear that policymakers, planners, providers, and practitioners must work closely with members of the Deaf community to fashion programs and strategies that meet their needs and demonstrate a responsiveness to the issues of the Deaf culture.

Air Force Pamphlet 44-160. This 54-page document describes the Air Force Suicide Prevention Plan, which consists of eleven initiatives identified by the Air Force Suicide Prevention Integrated Product Team (IPT).

Defines the term “cultural competency”. Provides guidance for mental health professionals on: developing essential knowledge, skills and attributes; building counselor/client rapport; translator and interpreter challenges; connecting with families; and confidentiality issues.

Considers mental health services for the following racial and ethnic groups: African Americans; American Indians and Alaska Natives; Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; and Hispanic Americans;

This report describes the emergence of the mental health court strategy in four pioneering jurisdictions in the United States, beginning with Broward County, Florida, where the idea was first innovated and adapted to different settings and challenges in King County (Seattle), Washington; Anchorage, Alaska; and San Bernardino, California. Pressures that have led to the development of the mental health court strategy include crises in community mental health care (the long-term effects of deinstitutionalization), the drug epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s, the dramatic increase in homelessness over that period and problems faced by the mentally ill in already overcrowded jails including the relatively common co-occurrence of mental illness among the large numbers of substance abusers in the criminal justice population.

An online listing of interview, self-report, and screening tools for assessing suicide in children and adolescents, including behaviors, risk, intentionality, attitudes, reasons, exposure to suicide, and other factors. Includes psychometric properties, where to obtain the instrument, and references. Reproduced from a technical report submitted to the National Institute of Mental Health by D. Goldston (2000).