A Look at the Stress Factors that may Present a Suicide Risk and the Protective Factors that were Generated to Counter that Risk of Twenty Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals

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Description

The B/VI suicide rate is virtually unknown as data is extremely rare. This study found stressors to which the B/VI have a heightened susceptibility as well as protective factors that are generated to compensate for the increased risk.

Participants will:

Identify at least four of the seven stressors to which the B/VI have a heightened susceptibility.
Identify at least three of the five stressors that affect the B/VI in a manner unique to them.
Identify ten of twenty-nine supports that protect against suicide.

This session is presented by Henry Tyszka, Ph.D.

Contributors

Henry Tyszka, Ph.D.

Dr. Tyszka recently completed his Ph.D. The focus of his dissertation was an inquiry into the relationship between blind and visually impaired individuals and suicide.
His career centered around special education including a residential school for the blind teaching auto-mechanics and over twenty years teaching in a center-based program for students with autism.
Dr. Tyszka is bi-lingual in French and still learns from seven years of development experiences in francophone Africa orientated towards education.