How can we help a friend or family member, or ourselves, in achieving and maintaining mental health? How can we help prevent a personal or social crisis resulting in harm or death? Experts, counselors, therapists, and first responders have specialized training and education. What can friends, family, acquaintances, or other non-specialists do? We can prepare ourselves before any emergency occurs. This page provides some tips and links to authoritative sources to study BEFORE there is an emergency.
Crisis Intervention Handbook by 
First Responder's Guide to Abnormal Psychology by 
Building Back Better by 
Students' Mental Health Needs by