Suicide

Note: To find out more about how these sites were chosen, please read How We Select Our Resources. Also, many sites listed on our General Mental Health issues page are extremely large, and contain information on many different issues. Please be sure to check out those sites as well.

The American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy

http://www.aamft.org/index_nm.asp

Website for he American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), a professional organization for marriage and family therapists. Includes consumer information about therapists, and therapy in general, as well as condition-specific "consumer updates". For more information on AAMFT, please see the description in the General Mental Health Issues section.

Suicidal Thoughts

American Psychiatric Association

http://www.psych.org/public_info/teen.cfm

Information on teen suicide provided by the national professional organization of psychiatrists.

Metanoia

http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/

Great site with practical, "real" information on suicide. For those who are suicidal, or those who have someone in their lives who is suicidal.

The stigma of suicide within us

Handling a call from a suicidal person

Suicidal Thoughts: how serious is our condition?