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1 paź 2023 · Reducing the stigma, bringing more awareness and seeking help are important to combat suicide, according to Mari Gutierrez, Zero Suicide team leader and licensed psychological associate at...
9 wrz 2024 · With 6 years to go to reach the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and WHO targets of a reduction of suicide mortality by one third, the situation calls for a step change to accelerate progress in suicide prevention. Addressing the risk factors for suicide is imperative for prevention.
9 wrz 2024 · The public health approach to suicide prevention requires us to move away from thinking about suicide as a purely clinical problem and to pay heed to the array of social determinants (such as financial hardship or domestic violence and abuse) that might lead people to consider suicide as an option.
9 wrz 2024 · Moving suicide prevention beyond mental health alone will require a policy reset involving genuine whole-of-government commitment. National suicide prevention strategies need to reflect the impact on suicide of policies that sit outside the health sector as well as within it.
8 paź 2019 · Suicide prevention should be incorporated as a core component in the health system to intervene early when people are found to be at risk of suicide. To scale up services for people with mental health conditions and people affected by suicidal behaviours, WHO has developed the mhGAP community toolkit .
Dianne L. Chambless, professor emerita of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, died on July 14, 2023. Dianne received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Temple University in 1979.
In a recent multicentre cluster RCT, a Youth Aware of Mental Health Programme intervention significantly reduced the incidence of suicide attempts (OR 0.45, 0.24 to 0.85) and suicidal ideation at 12-month follow-up (0.50, 0.27 to 0.92) compared with the control group.
