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CRITICAL INCIDENT AND INTERVENTION TOPICS
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FlameThink, Inc. will address two critical areas of concern:1. Critical Incident Stress Management 2. Suicide Intervention Skills 1. Critical Incident Stress Management - along with providing thought provoking articles on topics pertaining to stress and stress management, it is our intent to establish, coordinate and conduct Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) training opportunities in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, and eventually state wide. 2. Suicide Intervention Skills is a very personal topic for this director. I have taught Suicide Prevention courses for 28 years. Additionally, I have taught Suicide Intervention courses for over five years. Suicide cuts across ethnic, economic, social and age boundaries. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among teenagers in the U.S. In the D/FW area, suicide has been the second leading cause of death among teenagers two out of the past seven years. Nation wide, suicide has been on a steady increase for nearly 20 years. In the U.S. military, the number of suicides is at its highest level since records were kept (records date back as far as 1864). The greatest frustration facing this issue is society's refusal to address it. Suicide is a preventable public health problem, and while we will never eliminate every suicide attempt, communities can take steps to reduce them. Suicides will not decrease if our communities continue to ignore them. On the contrary, the rates will continue to sky rocket until society addresses the issues of suicide. Currently, the following issues are found among individuals who commit suicide. 1. Bullying - in my years of experience I have found that this is the number one reason why students commit suicide. Survivors of suicide tell us they felt there were no recourses left except for extreme measures to eliminate the torment of being bullied. As a result of this harassment, bullied children some times fall into the "homocidal-suicidal" category being determined to take their tormentors with them. In many cases, the bully evades the attack and other "unintended" individuals become victims. Some suicide survivors reveal they chose drastic actions because parents and the education system simply refused to correct the actions of the bully and offered no form of self-esteem/self value support. 2. Isolation - some "at risk individuals" simply felt unwanted and trapped in an undesirable situation. 3. Family Abuse - mental, physical, drug and alcohol abuse are factors in driving an individual toward "at risk behavior." 4. Family Issues - divorce, blended/mixed family issues, and critical health issues among family membes have been cited as reasons for "at risk behavior." 5. Financial Hardship - economic instability and lack of a foreseeable resolution is a factor in suicides. 6. Experiencing traumatic events - for some, experiencing traumatic events can lead to a sense of hopelessness and helplessness thus propelling the person toward "at risk behavior." 7. Seeing no reason for living - having a lack of and/or no sense of self value or purpose is another factor causing "at risk behavior." Suicides damage more than the families who loose a loved one. Suicides damage communities and reveal the glaring short comings of how we operate as a community. Another reason suicides rates are high is the lack of adequately trained indiviudals who can perform basic intervention. While most communities and schools offer some form of Suicide Prevention Programs, relativley few incorporate a Suicide Intervention Program. Suicide Prevention and Suicide Intervention are not the same! It's time for the Dallas/Fort Worth areas to understand and grasp this fact. It's time for the D/FW area to address the Suicide issue, and it's time for our communities to declare war on the plague of suicide. For interested individuals, organizations and/or schools, Flame Think, Inc. intends to coordinate and conduct Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST). Please log-on and email me if you are interested in finding out more. |
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Friday, 03 February 2012 00:06 | Author: Flame Think, Inc. |
  
(Flame Think, Inc. wishes to express its sincere appreciation to Dr. David Summers for sharing his hypothesis with us.)
Why do people commit suicide? Perhaps one can surmise some mechanical apparatus of the brain  suffered a gross malfunction. Imagine a group of neurons perhaps shorted out and communication with the axons and synapse got stuck in some kind of defective reverse function. Instead of working with other neural systems, the malfunction insist the mind take everything it perceives and reduces it to a land-fill of jumbled incoherent thought – nothing making any more sense than one could tell you of the origins of the broken pieces of wood, plastic, paper, and other discard of the human existence. This is in fact, what happens in severe paranoid schizophrenics. |
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It is standard procedure for most businesses to conduct annual Suicide Awareness and Prevention classes. The traditional hour of blah...blah...blah most likely consisting of slides from years ago, and dusty manuscripts with stats from the 1970's. 
The year is quickly coming to an end. For many businesses and individuls, the end of the year denotes a time of preperation for the new year. One of the things we must prepare is our varous documents for income tax returns.
