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Navigating stressors and military service can be a difficult task. Engagement with military members, too, can present a unique set of challenges. How a military member seeks and maintains support, treatment, and clinical interaction are guided by the population norms. The resources below were carefully selected to inform on some of these challenges of interaction. To increase connection with military members and positively support them during stressors or thoughts of suicide.

May, Overholse, Ridley & Raymond, 2015

If you feel you or someone else is in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. It is a free, 24-hour hotline, at 1.800.273.TALK (8255). Your call will be connected to the crisis center nearest to you. If you are in an emergency, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room. This site does not offer crisis counseling or emergency services.

Surveillance of Suicide and Suicide Attempts among Veterans.

Kemp& Bossarte, 2012

Sociology of Knowledge Military Suicide.

Parris, 2011

Passive Suicidal Ideation: A Clinically Relevant Risk Factor for Suicide in Treatment-Seeking Veteran

Veteran Psychiatry in the US Optimizing Clinical Outcomes.

Ritchie & Llorente, 2019

Handbook of Military Social Work.

Rubin, Weiss & Coll, 2012

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