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This web page offers information on the warning signs of emotional distress after an individual has experienced a natural or human-caused disaster. Warning signs are identified, and the page includes links to information about populations at greater risk and suggestions for coping with traumatic events and disasters.
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This playlist from the Capacity Building Center for Tribes includes five recorded webinars focused on tribal trauma and resilience. Each webinar focuses on different factors that affect tribal mental and behavioral health, including protective community factors, historic trauma, trauma-informed child welfare, and secondary traumatic stress.
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This web page provides an overview of the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and the risk factors that may make it more likely for children to develop PTSD. It also describes the signs of PTSD in children and adolescents and different techniques to treat PTSD.
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This web page includes resources and information on suicide prevention can be used by researchers, healthcare professionals, and consumers. This page presents sources of help for someone in immediate crisis, signs and symptoms of suicidality, risk factors, and information about research on suicide, as well as links to related resources.
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This fact sheet provides information about the prevalence of suicide among Asian Americans. It includes statistics on suicide-related outcomes, risk and protective factors, and guidance for reporting news about suicide and supporting a loved one.
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Noting the prevalence of suicide and substance misuse in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth, this resource from the Education Development Center highlights the possibility of promoting protective factors in AI/AN communities to support prevention. It includes examples of positive AI/AN youth development programs and explores unique community factors that can protect against suicide and alcohol misuse.
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This web page provides information on the factors that may lead to suicide. It lists warning signs that someone may be suicidal based on their behavior, mood, and what they talk about. It also describes the health factors, environmental factors, and historical factors that put a person more at risk for becoming suicidal.
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This presentation from the Education Development Center explores strategies for supporting substance misuse prevention in American Indian and Alaska Native populations. The suite of tools provided considers culture-based best practices to ensure traditions, values, and community strengths are measured and supported to promote community health.
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This literature review explores the effect of quarantine and isolation during disease outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics on the risk of suicide. It includes studies on the impacts of outbreaks and epidemics including the Spanish influenza outbreaks, H1N1 influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Ebola virus disease, and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).
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This edition of the SAMHSA Disaster Technical Assistance Center's research newsletter describes research on reactions children and youth may have to human-caused disasters such as incidents of mass violence, terrorist attacks, and technological disasters. The edition identifies mental health and substance use issues and conditions that may affect young people after human-caused disasters, as well as approaches and interventions to support them.
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This article reviews research on the relationship between mass trauma, such as incidents of mass violence and terrorism, and suicide. The article covers research on the mental health effects of mass shootings, risk factors for suicidality and self-harm, and suicide clusters, as well as pointing out the need for more evidence on how to support survivors at highest risk of adverse mental health effects and suicidal behavior.
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This issue of the SAMHSA Disaster Technical Assistance Center's research newsletter discusses reactions children and youth may have to a natural disaster. It also describes a variety of mental health issues and mental disorders that may occur, as well as substance use and misuse issues among adolescents, and risk and protective factors.
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Designed for parents, teachers, and other school personnel, this web page highlights the role adults can play in intervening with children and youth at risk of suicide. It identifies risk factors and warning signs and offers tips on how adults can respond if they notice these factors in children or youth. Also discussed is the role of the school in suicide prevention.
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This study examined psychological effects of quarantine via an online survey of a convenience sample of 129 people quarantined in Canada during the 2002–2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak. More than one in four respondents reported symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression. Factors associated with these symptoms included being exposed to the virus or knowing someone who was diagnosed with the disease.
This tip sheet defines climate change and explains how it may affect people who take medications to manage health conditions, including mental health issues and conditions. It lists signs of heat-related distress and illness and identifies steps individuals and communities can take to become more resilient.
This model is designed to guide officials, leaders, and others involved in emergency management and disaster behavioral health in considering and planning responses to disasters with impacts that overlap in time. This model considers various roles individuals may play in a disaster and disaster response and how each role navigates their response to disasters.
This web page provides information about traumatic events and child traumatic stress. It explores possible traumatic experiences, including disaster events; childhood traumatic stress; and risk and protective factors.
This web page details the factors associated with risk of suicide. The web page lists the risk and protective factors based on health, environment, and life experiences, as well as access to mental health care. It further describes the warning signs people may notice in someone else experiencing thoughts of suicide and links to information about finding help and talking with someone if you are concerned.
This toolkit is designed to help providers and communities to improve linkages to care and increase care integration for people who use drugs. Although the toolkit was developed for the State of Maryland, it may be useful to other states and localities working to improve care for people who use drugs.
This web page from the Capacity Building Center for Tribes provides information regarding trauma and healing for Native American communities. It highlights videos, presentations, case studies, a mobile application, and more resources focused on historical trauma, protective factors, resilience, and trauma-informed practices to best serve and support tribal communities.