hey all,
just a quick post about my blog 2 topic on suicide. i am very keen to do this topic and find out all the interesting research into the area. thanks to kara for letting me have the topic back lol!
i feel suicide is one of the most tragic things in life, and although it has not affected me personally, i can only imagine what is must be like for the person themselves, their friends, and family.
hopefully after reseaching suicide and everyone reading my blog number 2 (and i am sure you all will), it will help us a bit in detecting if a friend or someone we know is vulnerable to committing suicide.
here is a pretty good website called Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA) for anyone interested.
will keep you updated.
peace
ps. if anyone knows of some good research/websites about suicide, be sure to let me know...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
8 comments:
Hey Graham,
Your very right in your comments, I feel as though suicide is something that sadly occurs too often and something we dont know much about. I remember seeing some flyers at uni about a program I think (correct me if i am wrong) was called SIP at UC. I think it stood for suicide intervention program. It might be worth looking into. I found this link about it, but I am sure you could get some good info from those involved
http://www.auseinet.com
/journal/vol2iss1/pearce.pdf
Beck =)
Hey Graeme, interesting topic choice! I'm guessing it would either be (a) or (b)? 5000 and 10,000 seems a bit high. Either way its terrible that even for it to be as high as 1000. I would imagine the suicide attempt rate would be quite a bit higher aswell?
hey beck,
thanks for the info. will check it out soon.
michael,
firstly, learn how to spell my name mate...haha.
you will have to wait and see about the results, one week for votes (tell all your friends).
also, i would say the attempt rate at suicide would be much higher, but ahvent yet found stats on this. there is also a problem with reporting that some deaths don't get recorded as suicide. i also read somewhere about the suicide rate in aboriginal communities being under reported.
Hey Graham!
Great topic choice (haha). I'll be sure to keep checking your blog to see what interesting things you dig up about this topic!
-Kara ;o)
Hey Graham (got it right this time haha).
I've told all my friends about your quiz!haha
Yeah I've heard many aboriginal suicides go unreported. What does that mean exactly. Do the authorities under-report in statistics? or do they mean family and friends of suiciders don't report to the authorities?
I've also heard aboriginal suicide rates in custody are amongst the highest in the world!!
in response to mike,
the rate of aboriginal suicide deaths was 4.3% in 2005, comapred to 1.6% for all other Australians. i havent yet found out what the rate of suicide in custody is. the ABS says there are a number of issues with regards to statistics of suicide, incuding how long it takes for coroners to process deaths that are reported as suicides. also, under-counting may occur in aboriginal suicide because statistics are not realeased for Vic, Tas, and ACT.
Hey Graham,
Good topic, you beat me too : )
Suicide has such a stigma attached to it which is terrible when the number of completed and attempted suicides are so high.
A little while ago I did a two day workshop on suicide first aid. It was incredible and I would recommend it to everyone.
It taught me not to be afraid of asking people if they are thinking about suicide and the skills and confidence to know what to do if they say they are.
People who are having suicidal thoughts are always so relieved to actually talk to someone about what they are feeling.
I guess when we don't know what to say we often don't say anything, which just increases the sense of loneliness and isolation for the person in need. This is why it is so important to break the stigma and raise awareness, so we can support people as well as let them know where they can go for further support.
The program was run by Living Works, they do a range of programs and their website is www.livingworks.net
Hey Graham - you'll probably find that any reports on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders will be often under-reported (because a significant proportion of them prefer not to identify their background because of stereotyping and/or easily being identified in small communities if there are sensitive issues involved), but also over-represented when the media gets hold of a 'hot issue' such as petrol sniffing, child abuse etc in Aboriginal communities - just to add fuel to the 'prejudice' fire. The best statistics for Indigenous people are derived from NT, SA and WA which is then extrapolated to the rest of Australia.
Cheers
Karen
Post a Comment