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Experience And Evaluation Of Hospital-Based Training Of University Teachers For Suicide Prevention In Mumbai, India, Amresh Srivastava May 2013

Experience And Evaluation Of Hospital-Based Training Of University Teachers For Suicide Prevention In Mumbai, India, Amresh Srivastava

Amresh Srivastava

Amresh Shrivastava, Shubhangi Parkar, Nilesh Shah Background In India suicide rates high amongst student’s population with rising numbers of student’s suicide. The National Crime Research Bauru (NCRB) the Government of India reopots that approximately 2.% suicide takes place due to failure in examination, needless to say it remains grossly underreported due to several causes.eg. legal hassels The intervention strategy for dealing with mental health issues of students is particularly dependent upon awareness about suicide amongst the parsons who are in direct touch with them. The teachers of the colleges are in an advantageous position because they are in direct touch …


Perspectives On Help-Negation, Coralie J. Wilson Nov 2012

Perspectives On Help-Negation, Coralie J. Wilson

Coralie J Wilson

Help-negation refers to the process of help avoidance or refusal that commonly occurs in clinical and non-clinical samples with varying forms and levels of psychological symptoms. In the last decade the effect has been established as an inverse relationship between the severity of symptoms and help-seeking for suicidal ideation, depression, and general psychological distress, for a variety of professional and non-professional help sources [see Wilson CJ, Bushnell JA, Caputi P. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 2011; 5: 34-39, for a review]. Findings from now over 20 help-negation studies suggest that at least some types of psychological symptoms or processes associated with …


Help-Negation And Suicidal Ideation: The Role Of Depression, Anxiety And Hopelessness., Coralie J. Wilson Dec 2009

Help-Negation And Suicidal Ideation: The Role Of Depression, Anxiety And Hopelessness., Coralie J. Wilson

Coralie J Wilson

Help-negation is expressed behaviorally by the refusal or avoidance of available help and cognitively by the inverse relationship between self-reported symptoms of psychological distress and help-seeking intentions. The current study is part of a larger multi-cite research program developed and led by the first author. It examines the association between suicidal ideation and intentions to seek help from friends, family and professional mental health sources in a sample of 302 Australian university students. Participants were 77.5% female and aged from 18-25 years old, with 85.4% aged 21 years or younger. Higher levels of suicidal ideation were related to lower help-seeking …