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Emotional CPR Webinar - An Introduction to Assisting Others Through Emotional Crisis

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New Partnership Between Facebook, SAMHSA and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

Facebook is announcing a new service that harnesses the power of social networking and crisis support to help prevent suicides across the nation and Canada. The new service enables Facebook users to report a suicidal comment they see posted by a friend to Facebook using either the Report Suicidal Content link or the report links found throughout the site. The person who posted the suicidal comment will then immediately receive an e-mail from Facebook encouraging them to call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or to click on a link to begin a confidential chat session with a crisis worker.
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Open Dialogue: Increasing Resources in Severe Crises by Jaakko Seikkula (PDF, 289KB, 27 pages)

Soteria

Soteria-Alaska

Website: www.soteria-alaska.com

Soteria-Alaska was established to provide an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization under the principles established by the beloved, late Dr. Loren Mosher in his Soteria-House project. The small, community based facility has 2 staff and rooms for up to 10 guests. LENGTH OF STAY: sufficient time for relationships to develop that allow precipitating events to be acknowledged, usually disavowed, painful emotions to be experienced and expressed and put into perspective by fitting them into the continuity of a person's life.

Relationships are central to the program's work

1. Facilitated by staff being ideologically uncommitted ( i.e. to approach psychosis with an open mind)
2. Convey positive expectations of recovery
3. Validate the psychotic person's subjective experience of psychosis as real by developing an understanding of it by "being with" and "doing with" the clients
4. No psychiatric jargon is used in interactions with these clients.

Soteria Internationally

For more information on the latest developments of the Soteria Network internationally, check out: http://www.soterianetwork.org.uk

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