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September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. In an effort to help raise awareness, we have compiled a listing of local events, free CE/CME courses, articles and videos, research, as well as links to other awareness month resources.
Riggs Treatment for Issues Around Suicide: Prior to coming to Riggs, more than half of our patients have made a near-lethal suicide attempt or struggled with suicidal ideation. Treatment in the open setting of Riggs isn’t right for everyone dealing with thoughts of suicide; it requires the capacity to balance the freedom of the open setting with the responsibility, as a member of our community, to keep oneself alive in order to have treatment.
If you are in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 for 24/7 free, confidential emotional support, or use their webchat.
Local Events
- Berkshire County's Annual Suicide Prevention Conference
Date: September 10, 2024
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Bousquet Mountain Ski Area, 101 Dan Fox Drive, Pittsfield, MA 01201
Best practices in suicide prevention for high-risk populations in Berkshire County, MA
Up to 6.5 hours of CE credit available.
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) 2024 Berkshire County Walk to Prevent Suicide
Date: Saturday, September 7, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (Eastern) (registration starts at 9:00 a.m.)
Location: First Street Common, Pittsfield, MA
Registration and information: https://supporting.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=register.start&eventID=10201
Free CE/CME Courses
- Alliance-Based Intervention for Suicide with Eric M. Plakun, MD, DLFAPA, FACPsych
- How Do Interpersonal Conflicts Contribute to Suicide Risk? A Clinical and Empirical Discussion with Katie Lewis, PhD
Articles & Videos
- 7 Themes Reported by Near-Lethal Suicide Attempt Survivors
- Suicide: Four Protective Factors – Jane G. Tillman, PhD, at the Austen Riggs Center Centennial Conference
- William Wan Speaks About his Four-part Series in the Washington Post, "Dying for Help: How America's mental health system is failing mentally vulnerable and suicidal youths"
- The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
- Four R’s Believed to Be Protective Against Suicide (in Psychiatric News)
Our Clinicians’ Research
- Lewis, K., Roche, M. J., Brown, F., Tillman, J. (2023). Intolerance of aloneness as a prospective predictor of suicidal ideation during COVID-19. Journal of Affective Disorders-Reports. DOI: 10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100469
- Lewis, K., Roche, M. J., Brown, F., Tillman, J. (2022). Attachment, loneliness, and social connection as prospective predictors of suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a relational diathesis-stress experience sampling study. Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior. DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12922
- Tillman, J. G., Stevens, J. L., & Lewis, K. (2021). States of mind preceding a near-lethal suicide attempt: A mixed methods study. Psychoanalytic Psychology. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1037/pap0000378
- Lewis, K., Good, E., Tillman, J., Hopwood, C. (2021). Assessment of psychological pain in clinical and non-clinical samples: A preliminary investigation using the Psychic Pain Scale. Archives of Suicide Research, 25(3), 552-569. DOI: 10.1080/13811118.2020.1729914
- Lewis, K., Meehan, K., Cain, N., Wong, P., Clemence, A.J., Stevens, J., & Tillman, J. (2021). Quality of internalized object representations and suicidality in individuals with anaclitic and introjective personality styles. Journal of Personality Disorders, 35(1), 145-160. DOI: 10.1521/pedi_2019_33_435
Additional Suicide Prevention Awareness Month Resources
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)
- National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP)