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Objective: The growing demand for emergency department (ED) care for suicidal ideation and attempts in adolescents calls for effective interventions preventing post-ED recurrence of suicidal crises. Parents are tasked with implementing postdischarge suicide prevention recommendations, often with little support. To address this need, this study examined a parent-facing texting intervention targeting parental engagement in suicide prevention activities to lower youth suicide risk after discharge.

The slaughter of nearly one million Tutsi and moderate Hutu in the span of 100 daysduring the 1994 Genocide Against Tutsi in Rwanda left an indelible imprint on the mentalhealth of genocide survivors. Research on the mental health of post-genocide survivorsreveals deeply embedded social and psychological wounds that many Rwandans sustained asa result of the extreme trauma they experienced. I have examined the underpinnings of theGenocide Against Tutsi and the impact of the trauma inflicted as a result.

Although it is known that equine-assisted interventions (EAI) have beneficial effects on human participants, the effects on horses have not been extensively studied. This study investigated the effects of EAI with military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), on the heart rate (HR), heart rate variability (HRV), and behaviour of the involved horses. In total six different horses were deployed multiple times during a 12-week program of EAI for veterans with PTSD. The HR and HRV were measured during baseline conditions, free activities and directed activities.