Free Monday Download: Gender Differences in adolescent depression and suicidal ideation

This paper is based on over 2400 adolescents aged 13 from 27 schools. It demonstrates differences between young men and young women in levels of depression, responses to it, and suicidality. The paper has implications for suicide prevention programs in schools

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Download here: *Gender differences in the relationship between depression and  suicidal ideation in young adolescents 2001

Allison, S., Roeger, L., Martin, G., & Keeves, J., 2001. Gender Differences in the relationship between depression and suicidal ideation in young adolescents. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 35, 498-503

Sunday Haiku on Five/ Plead/ Keep/ Package

Five

One, two, three, four, five

Once I caught a fish alive

Then I let him go

Go for Asian food

The secret ingredient

Magical Five Spice

Five times she said 'No'

So he tried asking again

On the seventh day...

Plead

If I cut you dead

You'd plead all over the floor

I could not stand that

Summer plead for rain

In winter we plead for sun

Never satisfied

Please Sir, is there more?

Mr Bumble was outraged

So we plead to God?

Keep

Inside my castle

There is a special locked room

Where I keep my pain

For all that you are

For all the moments we've shared

I keep loving you

The fates keep secrets

Woven in life's tapestry

Until the thread is cut

I keep forgetting

Write it down in your notebook

But where's my notebook?

Package

Neat little package

She's perfectly apportioned

Feeds my appetite

Neat little package

Perfectly, tastefully wrapped

I untie her bow

Package for the male

Clear instructions on her box

Open carefully

Haiku on Delicate/ Elude/ Nature

Delicate

Delicatessen

Such a heady aroma

Sweetmeats for the soul

Delicate balance

Today I'm totally sane

But, if I lost you...

Great Barrier Reef

Delicate ecology

Let's not muck it up

Elude

Slipping from his grasp

She pretended to elude

A teasing prelude

There's the parking spot

That car eludes me again

Where did I leave it?

The thought crossed my mind

And ran behind two others

Now it eludes me

Nature

The nature of clouds

Shapes evolving each second

Driven by the wind

We are affronted

We cannot control the mind

Nature of the beast

Such a sweet nature

Butter melts not in her mouth

Just do not cross her

I catch up with you

Bodies languid together

Nature of Sundays

Haiku on Mishap-Crush/ Down/ Last

Mishap - Crush

Small kitchen mishap

Vampire cooking at twilight

Crushed a garlic clove

Dropped melon on foot

Enormous bruise from fruit crush

A juicy mishap

Volcanic mishap

Tons of hot lava and ash

Crush ancient city

Down

The Sussex South Downs

Rolling green hills, walking trails

An English treasure

Down into slumber

The deepest dreamless of sleeps

To awake refreshed

Caught in that moment

His hand in the cookie jar

Looked down at his feet

Last

When was the last time?

Seems ages; ages to go

Thank goodness for that

Last year saw snowdrops

This year there is so much snow

They will need long stems

So, this will not last?

Want to take a bet on that?

You already lost

Haiku on Reward/ Appetite/ Bargain/ Silence

Reward

Loyalty reward

Long term investment in you

I get a free lunch

Lost my mind somewhere

Reward for helping find it

If I don't forget

Good reward system

Operant conditioning

Fish for dolphin tricks

Appetite

Tense, dense, not much sense

He was an appetite man

Anger, Hunger, Life

Appetite sated

He became an observer

Watching his diet

Children in the park

Such an appetite for life

They forget to eat

Bargain

Learning to bargain

Playing marbles in playground

I want that red one

Plays Monopoly

What d'you want for Old Kent Road?

Now someone's landlord

Beware of bargains

'Original' watch from Bali

Lasted just three days

Silence

Silence is golden

No word of challenge is heard

Can hear a pen drop

Haiku on Trade/ Alarm/ Ghost-Surface

Trade

Wise experience

Now willing to do a trade

For youthful vigour

Trade in Ivory

Wealthy New World collector

An elephant dies

The trade winds of change

Strangers from across the world

Enrich our culture

Alarm

The alarm went off

Sound again another day

Go away today

Smoke alarm shrilling

Oh God, the house is on fire

No, just the toaster

One more false alarm

We want you to be pregnant

Two days late again

Ghost-Surface

Slight recognition

Ghost of a smile surfaces

I'm sure I know you

The poor ghost writer

Never really knows the truth

Scratches the surface

Just ghosting through life

Love no more than surface deep

Borderline person

Monday Free Download: Suicide Prevention Training: A Workshop Format

This workshop was originally designed as part of an Australian Government funded project 'Out of the Blues', devised to provide better access to young people with depressive symptoms. The format of the workshop is straight forward, drawing on evidence from available research, using a video developed for another Australian Government funded project 'Keep Yourself Alive' which trained over 5000 community workers and 3500 family doctors across Australia.

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Download Here: *Suicide prevention training A Workshop Format

Wright, S. and Martin, G., 2000.  Suicide Prevention Training: A Workshop.  Youth Studies Australia.  19:2, 39-42.
Reprinted as: Wright, S. & Martin G., 2010. Suicide prevention training: A workshop, Ch 15. In Doing youth work in Australia (Editor Professor Rob White) , Volume 2: Youth work and youth issues. Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies. University of Tasmania, Australia. http://www.acys.info/books/acys/doing_youth_work_in_australia

The workshop uses material from Pearce, C. & Martin, G., 1994. Predicting suicide attempts among adolescents. Acta Psychiatrica Scand., 90: 324-328. (which can be downloaded from Family Concern Publishing 
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Haiku on Frighten/ Halting/ Value

Frighten

Bully boy cane toad

Croaking up the wet season

Tried to frighten frogs

Storms frighten at times

Sheet lightning and fierce rain drops

Beating up the house

Playing with torches

Children frighten up shadows

Sneak into Mum's bed

Halting

Fence on the cliff top

Halting rate of suicides

A small barrier

Lost his baby teeth

Halting, embarrassed question

"Pleathe mith, may I thpeak?"

Power of Haiku

Halting the mind's slow decline

Mindful poetry

Value

In chemical terms

Our body's worth three dollars

Value somewhat more

Need to discuss this

I value your opinion

Love, trust, intertwined

If life has value

Why do humans keep killing?

Proves we're animals

Haiku on Ahead/ Double/ Last

Ahead

Janus looks ahead

But he also looks behind

Two-faced Roman God

Getting ahead, boy?

Need to know where you're going...

Or wind up elsewhere

Why look at behinds?

I'm following those ahead

Nothing sinister

Double

Double your money

Halve the amount you're eating

A bonus weight loss

Double jeopardy

If I love you, may get hurt

If not, may get hurt

Twins rushing about

Sticky fingers everywhere

Double the trouble

Last

The last coil of spring

Bounces into summertime

Unwound by the warmth

Atop the mountain

The last samurai stood, still

Champion alone

Last ray of sunshine

Sun went down permanently

Child hid from the dark