The American Psychological Association and the National Center for Veterans Studies at the University of Utah will bring experts to Capitol Hill to discuss actions to reduce the risk of suicide among military service members and veterans. For 2010, the U.S. armed services reported a total of 434 suicides by active duty personnel, up from 381 reported in 2009. The Senate briefing, which is open to the public, is in recognition of Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.
Military and civilian psychologists provide essential mental and behavioral health care to service members and their families and are extensively involved in the training of psychologists and other health care professionals.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION
TONY DIGIROLAMO- THE MORE THAT WE LOOK TO PSYCHOLOGY FOR HELP IN THE MATTER OF SUICIDE AMONG VETERANS ... SUICIDE OCCURS ALL THE MORE.
PSYCHOLOGIST WILLIAM R COULSON WARNED OF THIS DANGER HE SAID:
In schools across America, time is taken from academics to provide children with drug education, suicide education, and sex education courses; the promise is to reduce or eliminate personal experimentation with drugs, sex and suicide. That promise is false. Follow up research shows increased drug use and sexual activity after the typical classroom exercises; and from the popular "death and dying courses," there are preliminary indications that this kind of education also leads to a greater likelihood of violence against the self. The education is called "nondirective" or "affective.
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