Suicide is a leading cause of preventable death in youth, and numerous curricula and other prevention and intervention programs have been developed in the last 15 years. Comprehensive suicide prevention planning should include the 4 components of health promotion, prevention/education, intervention, and postvention. School-based suicide prevention and mental health education programs have becom...

BACKGROUND New technologies are an integral component of today's society and can complement existing suicide prevention programs. Here, we analyzed the use of new technologies in the prevention of suicide in 8 different European countries. OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper was to assess the opinions of professionals in incorporating such resources into the design of a suicide prevention program...

BACKGROUND While the ultimate goal of adolescent suicide-prevention efforts is to decrease the incidence of death by suicide, a critical intermediary goal is directing youths toward effective sources of assistance. AIM To comprehensively review the universal prevention literature and examine the effects of universal prevention programs on student's attitudes and behaviors related to help-seek...

It is critical to develop practical, effective, ecological, and decolonizing approaches to indigenous suicide prevention and health promotion for the North American communities. The youth suicide rates in predominantly indigenous small, rural, and remote Northern communities are unacceptably high. This health disparity, however, is fairly recent, occurring over the last 50 to 100 years as commu...

can consider how to organise services. The best parts are the detailed annotations of the text and the comparative tables, summarising the results of recent work on suicide and attempted suicide. The references are particularly well chosen and representative of international literature, as would be expected from discussions by seven eminent suicidologists from four separate Continents. The pres...

Suicide rate in physicians has been reported to be higher than general population or other academics. Previous studies found that 85-90% of people who commit suicide had been suffering from some type of psychiatric disorder. Suicide prevention is the key element in lowering the numbers of physicians who destroy themselves and end their lives each year. It is needed to provide some educational p...

Faith leaders (FL) have a key role in suicide prevention. One of their roles is to address stigma faith communities. Are they ready do so? The Clergy Suicide Prevention Skills Developmental Rubric (CSPCDR) was developed understand and assess clergy prevention skills. psychometric properties the CSPCDR are reported order FL’ readiness stigma. Sample 1, 186 Protestant seminary students completed ...