Preventing Suicide with Dr. Rania Awaad
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The Creative Minority
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Today marks the beginning of National Suicide Prevention Week. It is a week dedicated to bringing awareness around the topic of suicide, the harms associated with it, and how to prevent it. We are joined by world-renowned scholar, Dr. Rania Awaad to discuss this pertinent topic and how we can prevent suicide from occurring and addressing the symptoms leading up to it.
Here are some resources on the works of Dr. Rania and on understanding suicides:
Stanford Muslim Mental Health and Islamic Psychology Lab@StanfordMMHIP
The lab's new non-profit focused on Muslim mental health & Islamic
Psychology: maristan.org @maristan_org
Support us: maristan.org/support-maristan
Mental health resources: maristan.org/resources
Maristan Suicide Response "500 Imam" Campaign video Dr. Rania was referring to where she trained Imams on this topic. The Suicide Response trainings for the Muslim community are developed by her lab, and offered by their non-profit, Maristan.org mentioned above:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1NJIn58I8OM
Recent AP article about her suicide response trainings:
https://apnews.com/article/tx-state-wire-health-mental-health-religion-663828d07e5f32b5ab44f755e79f8d67
Recent radio or TV interviews:
https://omny.fm/shows/kcbsam-on-demand/mental-health-professionals-and-faith-leaders-are?
Muslim Network TV: https://youtu.be/X9A3wz_Ex0Q
CBS News Radio Weekend roundup interview: https://art19.com/shows/weekend-roundup/episodes/afa8b98e-9dc9-4bed-820c-a4a73a3646dd
KCBS San Francisco Radio interview: https://www.audacy.com/kcbsradio/podcasts/kcbs-on-demand-20757/new-study-indicates-american-muslims-have-higher-attempted-suicide-rates-651290296
CBS Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes interview: https://art19.com/shows/kaleidoscope/episodes/04de6fb7-8761-472b-beb5-bf9610fdfc20
0:00 Disclaimer
1:40 Intro
2:16 Advice related to suicide
4:14 Why people consider suicide
11:33 When living is Hard
13:20 How often to contact them
15:53 Cryptic messages
21:32 When people feel like they are a burden on others
24:50 Regret and reaching out
31:02 Postvention
43:46 Recap and concluding
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