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Suicide Risk Greater Among LGBTQ+ Students with No Access to Mental Health Services

Insight Into Diversity

Providing campus mental health services to college and university students who identify as LGBTQ+ can greatly reduce their risk of suicide, according to a recent report published by The Trevor Project. The post Suicide Risk Greater Among LGBTQ+ Students with No Access to Mental Health Services appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity.

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Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies Are Linked to Depression in Black and Latinx Youth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

T he Trevor Project , a youth LGBTQ centered organization, revealed that LGBTQ youth who found their school to be LGBTQ affirming, reported lower rates of attempted suicide. This survey also showed that 45 percent of LGBTQ youth have seriously considered suicide in 2022.

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Explaining the rise in student mental health and wellbeing issues

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It is important to note that three-quarters of suicides nationally and within HE are males. These findings are a likely causal factor for the high withdrawal rates of males, especially those from minority ethnic groups as highlighted in HESA data. Again, these findings are likely to contribute to higher withdrawal rates among males.

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Breaking the Silence: Mental Health and Trauma on Campus

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

ACHA’s Gun Safety Task Force, five doctors and scholars from institutions across the nation, works to “come to grips with this phenomenon in society, with the ultimate goal being to understand it and diminish its occurrence,” said Williamson. “We If [those in higher education] cannot focus on that, the institutional core mission is disrupted.”

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Gypsy, Roma, Traveller: living as an outcast

HEPI

This prompted her to research and investigate the communities’ history of segregation from society and the impact this has on GRT individuals today. GRT pupils have the lowest rates of attendance and the highest rates of permanent exclusions compared with all other ethnic groups.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

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Advancing our understanding of self-harm, suicidal thoughts and behaviours in autism. Neurotype-Matching, but not being autistic, influences self and observer ratings of interpersonal rapport. On the ontological status of autism: The ‘double empathy problem’ Disability and Society. 10.1007/s10803-020-04425-3. Cassidy, S.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

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Advancing our understanding of self-harm, suicidal thoughts and behaviours in autism. Neurotype-Matching, but not being autistic, influences self and observer ratings of interpersonal rapport. On the ontological status of autism: The ‘double empathy problem’ Disability and Society. 10.1007/s10803-020-04425-3. Cassidy, S.