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Situational Approach Fact Sheet November 2019 Final
Male Suicide Prevention AUSTRALIA FACT SHEET SUICIDE PREVENTION AND MENTAL DISORDERS The toll of suicide deaths in Australia continues to rise – despite substantial funding provided to the suicide prevention sector. This FACT SHEET presents some important information that is often over-looked in the current approach to suicide prevention in Australia. It is vital for effective suicide prevention that information that is presented to the community gives a fair and honest account of the key issues and factors involved in suicide deaths. SUICIDE – RATES AND NUMBERS ECONOMIC COST DEPRESSION/MENTAL DISORDER DEFICITS OF CURRENT APPROACH CONTENTS A. FACTS AT A GLANCE ................................................................. 2 B. SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THESE FACTS ............... 3 C. REFERENCES .................................................................................. 7 D. LINKS TO USEFUL PAPERS AND RESOURCES ........... 9 PREPARED BY John Ashfield PhD, Anthony Smith and Neil Hall PhD FACT SHEET SUICIDE PREVENTION AND MENTAL DISORDERS – JUNE 2019 COPYRIGHT © DR JOHN ASHFIELD AND ANTHONY SMITH 2019 1 ////// A. At A Glance Suicide – Rates and Numbers Depression/Mental Disorder • Suicide deaths in Australia now amount to • The rate of anti-depressant use in Australia around 3,000 per annum (3,128 in 2017) is amongst the highest in the world • There is common agreement in Australia • There is a great deal of disagreement in that the suicide figures are considerably expert opinion over the effectiveness and under-reported dangers -
Association Between Suicide Reporting in the Media and Suicide: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
BMJ 2020;368:m575 doi: 10.1136/bmj.m575 (Published 18 March 2020) Page 1 of 17 Research BMJ: first published as 10.1136/bmj.m575 on 18 March 2020. Downloaded from RESEARCH Association between suicide reporting in the media and suicide: systematic review and meta-analysis OPEN ACCESS Thomas Niederkrotenthaler associate professor 1 2, Marlies Braun postgraduate researcher 1 2, Jane Pirkis professor 3, Benedikt Till associate professor 1 2, Steven Stack professor 4, Mark Sinyor associate professor 5 6, Ulrich S Tran senior lecturer 2 7, Martin Voracek professor 2 7, Qijin Cheng assistant professor 8, Florian Arendt assistant professor 2 9, Sebastian Scherr assistant professor 10, Paul S F Yip professor 11, Matthew J Spittal associate professor 3 1Unit Suicide Research and Mental Health Promotion, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; 2Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research, Vienna, Austria; 3Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; 4Department of Criminology and Department of Psychiatry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA; 5Department of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada; 6Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; 7Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, http://www.bmj.com/ School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 8Department of Social Work, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; 9Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 10School for Mass Communication Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 11Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, and Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Abstract 1-8 days) for a one article increase in the number of reports on suicide. -
Romanian Journal of Psychiatry 01/2013; XV(2); 2
EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-chief: Dan PRELIPCEANU Co-editors: Dragoș MARINESCU Aurel NIREȘTEAN ASSOCIATE EDITORS Doina COZMAN Liana DEHELEAN Marieta GABOȘ GRECU Maria LADEA Cristinel ȘTEFĂNESCU Cătălina TUDOSE ROMANIAN Executive Editors: Elena CĂLINESCU Valentin MATEI STEERING COMMITTEE Vasile CHIRIȚĂ (Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, Iasi) JOURNAL Michael DAVIDSON (Professor, Sackler School of Medicine Tel Aviv Univ., Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York) Virgil ENĂTESCU (Member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, Satu Mare) Ioana MICLUȚIA (UMF Cluj-Napoca) of Șerban IONESCU (Paris VIII University, Trois-Rivieres University, Quebec) Mircea LĂZĂRESCU (Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, Timisoara) Juan E. MEZZICH (Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Division of Psychiatric Epidemiology and International Center PSYCHIATRY for Mental Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York) Teodor T. POSTOLACHE, MD (Director, Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore) Sorin RIGA (senior researcher, Obregia Hospital Bucharest) Dan RUJESCU (Head of Psychiatric Genomics and Neurobiology and of Division of Molecular and Clinical Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilians- University, Munchen) Eliot SOREL (George Washington University, Washington DC) Maria GRIGOROIU-ȘERBĂNESCU (senior researcher) Tudor UDRIȘTOIU (UMF Craiova) ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY WPA 2015 Bucharest International Congress 24 - 27 June • Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest Lectures WPA 2015 Bucharest International Congress 24 - 27 June • Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest Mental Health, Primary Care and the Challenge of Universal Health Coverage Michael Kidd Flinders University, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Australia Objectives: Family doctors and the members of primary health care teams have the capacity to successfully diagnose and treat mental health disorders. -
Dispatch Support Information
Emergency Services Dispatch Support Information Reference and Resource Handbook Edition 1.0 Emergency Services Call Takers and Dispatchers Supporting One Another JACK A. DIGLIANI, PhD, EdD Emergency Services Dispatch Support Information Contents Introduction 2 Stress and Traumatic Stress The Concept of Stress 3 The Dispatcher Culture 5 Dispatch Stressors and Stress Management 12 Signs of Excessive Stress 14 Critical Incident Information 15 Traumatic Stress: Shock, Impact, and Recovery – PTS/PTSD 16 Trauma: Chronological History and Psychological History 17 How to Recover from Traumatic Stress 18 Suggestions for Supporting Dispatchers Involved in Critical Incidents 19 Suggestions for Spouses of Dispatchers Involved in a Critical Incident 22 Tips for Recovering From Disasters and Other Traumatic Events 25 Recovering from Traumatic Stress 28 Incident Debriefing Information 29 Stress and Behavior Life Management: Life by Default - Life by Design 30 Issues of Behavior, Change, and Communication 31 Considerations for Change 32 Anger: Get Educated 33 Warning Signs of Alcoholism – Information 34 Some Things to Remember 36 Suicide and Risk Factors Suicide Risk and Protective Factors 37 Dispatch Suicide Risk Factors 38 Suicidal Callers 39 Helping a Person that is Suicidal 41 Common Misconceptions about Suicide 42 Death, Grief, and Mourning Death, Loss, and Survivorship 43 The Effects of Exposure to Death - Death Imprint 44 Marriage and Relationships Foundation Building Blocks of Functional Relationships 46 Gottman’s Marriage Tips 48 The Imperatives Communication, Occupational, and Relationship Imperatives 49 The Twelve Elements of the “Make it Safe” Initiative 50 Information About the Author 51 Introduction As first-responders, emergency services call takers and dispatchers (CT&D) confront many of the same stressors as those they dispatch. -
COVID-19 and Tele-Health, Effectiveness of Internet-Delivered
WCRJ 2021; 8: e2043 COVID-19 AND TELE-HEALTH, EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNET-DELIVERED PARENT-CHILD INTERACTION THERAPY ON IMPULSIVITY INDEX IN CHILDREN WITH NON-METASTATIC CANCER PARENTS: A PILOT RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL P. SADEGHI1, G. MIRZAEI2, F. REZA2, Z. KHANJANI2, M. GOLESTANPOUR1, Z. NABAVIPOUR3, M. DASTANBOYEH4 1Department of Psychology, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 2Department of Clinical Psychology, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran 3Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran 4Department of Clinical Psychology, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran Abstract – Objective: COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on the psychological state of society and has made the importance of planning evidence-based interventions even more apparent. Despite advances in telecommunication technologies to facilitate access to psychological care, the use of this technology in psychology has been limited and few studies have been conduct- ed in this field. The present study is the first controlled trial of applying video-teleconferencing to use parent-child interaction therapy in Iranian society. Patients and Methods: In a pilot randomized controlled trial, during May to November 2020 and from families with a mother with non-metastatic cancer, 42 parents and children with oppo- sitional defiant disorder (ODD) were selected through purposive sampling method and were as- signed into two groups of internet-delivered parent-child interaction therapy (I-PCIT) and waiting list (WL). After three weeks of baseline evaluation, twelve weekly I-PCIT sessions were presented to the experimental group in the form of video-teleconferencing based on Landers and Bratton model. -
Suicide by Poisoning in Pakistan: Review of Regional Trends, Toxicity
BJPsych Open (2021) 7, e114, 1–16. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2021.923 Review Suicide by poisoning in Pakistan: review of regional trends, toxicity and management of commonly used agents in the past three decades Maria Safdar*, Khalid Imran Afzal*, Zoe Smith, Filza Ali, Pervaiz Zarif and Zahid Farooq Baig Background from the agricultural belt of South Punjab and interior Sindh. ‘ ’ Suicide is one of the leading mental health crises and takes one Aluminium phosphide ( wheat pills ) was a preferred agent in ‘kala pathar’ life every 40 seconds. Four out of every five suicides occur in low- North Punjab, whereas paraphenylenediamine ( ) and middle-income countries. Despite religion being a protective was implicated in deaths by suicide from South Punjab. Urban factor against suicide, the estimated number of suicides is rap- areas had other means for suicide, including household idly increasing in Pakistan. chemicals, benzodiazepines, kerosene oil and rat poison. Aims Conclusions Our review focuses on the trends of suicide and means of Urgent steps are needed, including psychoeducational self-poisoning in the past three decades, and the management campaigns on mental health and suicide, staff training, medical of commonly used poisons. resources for prompt treatment of self-poisoning and updated governmental policy to regulate pesticide sales. Method We searched two electronic databases (PubMed and Keywords PakMediNet) for published English-language studies describing Low- and middle-income countries; suicide; mortality; epidemi- agents used for suicide in different regions of Pakistan. A total of ology; self-harm. 46 out of 85 papers (N = 54 747 cases) met our inclusion criteria. Copyright and usage Results © The Author(s), 2021. -
Epa Suicidology and Suicide Prevention Section Report 2017
EPA SUICIDOLOGY AND SUICIDE PREVENTION SECTION REPORT 2017 SECTION BOARD MEMBERS: Chairperson: Prof. Marco SARCHIAPONE Co-chairperson: Prof. Jorge LOPEZ CASTROMAN Secretary: Dr. Carla GRAMAGLIA Councillor: LAST SECTION BOARD ELECTIONS HELD: Date: 2016-04-18 Venue: N.A. ACTIVITIES OF THE SECTION IN 2017: Meetings/events EPA-SSSP Business Meeting Description: EPA-SSSP Section Business Meeting EPA Congress, Florence, Italy, Firenze Fiera Congress Centre, Piazza Adua, 1, Room 15, Palazzina Lorenese, 1st Floor, Date: Friday, April 4th 2017, Time: 10-11.30 a.m. After the Welcome from the chair, we had a brief update about EPA-SSSP members. Marco Sarchiapone said a few words concerning the Section, underscoring the large number of Members (this section is the biggest section of EPA) and the intensive work done. The Annual report 2016 was shared as well as information about the last meetings and activities of the section. Participants were informed about the EUDOR projects, which involved several Section members, who had had a Consensus meeting in Rome, March 29-30 2017. The recent experience of the 2nd Roman Forum on Suicide, 30-31 March 2017, Rome, Italy, was shared. Further activities of the Section were discussed: update about the homicide-suicide group and the suicide-homicide group; proposal of the flyers initiative. The possibility of turning EPA Educational Courses on Suicide into a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) was discussed. The Section Website was officially presented. Partners Venue: EPA Congress, Florence, Italy, Firenze Fiera -
Suicide Research: Selected Readings. Volume 2
SuicideResearchText-Vol2:SuicideResearchText-Vol2 8/6/10 11:00 AM Page i SUICIDE RESEARCH: SELECTED READINGS Volume 2 May 2009–October 2009 J. Sveticic, K. Andersen, D. De Leo Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention National Centre of Excellence in Suicide Prevention SuicideResearchText-Vol2:SuicideResearchText-Vol2 8/6/10 11:00 AM Page ii First published in 2009 Australian Academic Press 32 Jeays Street Bowen Hills Qld 4006 Australia www.australianacademicpress.com.au Reprinted in 2010 Copyright for the Introduction and Comments sections is held by the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, 2009. Copyright in all abstracts is retained by the current rights holder. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act, 1968, no part may be reproduced without prior permission from the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention. ISBN: 978-1-921513-53-4 SuicideResearchText-Vol2:SuicideResearchText-Vol2 8/6/10 11:00 AM Page iii Contents Foreword ................................................................................................vii Acknowledgments ..............................................................................viii Introduction Context ..................................................................................................1 Methodology ........................................................................................2 Key articles Alexopoulos et al, 2009. Reducing suicidal ideation -
Preventing Suicide: a Global Imperative
PreventingPreventing suicidesuicide A globalglobal imperativeimperative PreventingPreventing suicidesuicide A globalglobal imperativeimperative WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Preventing suicide: a global imperative. 1.Suicide, Attempted. 2.Suicide - prevention and control. 3.Suicidal Ideation. 4.National Health Programs. I.World Health Organization. ISBN 978 92 4 156477 9 (NLM classification: HV 6545) © World Health Organization 2014 All rights reserved. Publications of the World Health Organization are The mention of specific companies or of certain manufacturers’ available on the WHO website (www.who.int) or can be purchased products does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by from WHO Press, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, the World Health Organization in preference to others of a similar 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland (tel.: +41 22 791 3264; fax: +41 22 791 nature that are not mentioned. Errors and omissions excepted, the 4857; e-mail: [email protected]). names of proprietary products are distinguished by initial capital letters. Requests for permission to reproduce or translate WHO publications –whether for sale or for non-commercial distribution– should be All reasonable precautions have been taken by the World Health addressed to WHO Press through the WHO website Organization to verify the information contained in this publication. (www.who.int/about/licensing/copyright_form/en/index.html). However, the published material is being distributed without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. The responsibility The designations employed and the presentation of the material in for the interpretation and use of the material lies with the reader. In this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion no event shall the World Health Organization be liable for damages whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning arising from its use. -
Suicide in South Asia
SUICIDE IN SOUTH ASIA: A SCOPING REVIEW OF PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED LITERATURE FINAL REPORT OCT 15, 2013 HEALTHNET TPO i RESEARCH TEAM Mark Jordans, PhD Research and Development, HealthNet TPO, the Netherlands Center for Global Mental Health, King’s College London, UK Anne Kaufman, BA Research and Development, HealthNet TPO, the Netherlands Natassia Brenman, BA Research and Development, HealthNet TPO, the Netherlands Ramesh Adhikari, MA, MPhil Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO), Nepal Nagendra Luitel, MA Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO), Nepal Wietse Tol, PhD Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA Ivan Komproe, PhD Research and Development, HealthNet TPO, the Netherlands Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Special thanks to the members of our Research Advisory Group, Dr. Arzu Deuba, Dr. Murad Khan, Professor Atif Rahman and Dr. Athula Sumathipala, for their support and review of the search protocol, and to our National Consultants, Dr. Hamdard Naqibullah (Afghanistan), Dr. Nafisa Huq (Bangladesh), Ms. Mona Sharma (India), Dr. Jamil Ahmed (Pakistan), and Dr. Tom Widger (Sri Lanka), for their valuable local knowledge, and for leaving no stone unturned in identifying in-country documents on suicide. We also acknowledge the comments on the search protocol and draft report received from DFID’s South Asia Research Hub and in particular from the external peer reviewers, Daniela Fuhr (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), and Joanna Teuton (NHS Scotland). We thank Inge Vollebregt (HealthNet TPO) for her support in improving the presentation of the report. This research was done with financial support from DFID’s South Asia Research Hub, for which we are thankful. -
Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REPORTING ON SUICIDE Developed in collaboration with the American Association of Suicidology; American Foundation for Suicide Prevention; Annenberg Public Policy Center; Associated Press Managing Editors; Canterbury Suicide Project-University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand; Columbia University Department of Psychiatry; ConnectSafely.org; Emotion Technology; International Association for Suicide Prevention Task Force on Media and Suicide; Medical University of Vienna; National Alliance on Mental Illness; National Institute of Mental Health; National Press Photographers Association; New York State Psychiatric Institute; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Suicide Awareness Voices of Education; Suicide Prevention Resource Center; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); and UCLA School of Public Health, Community Health Sciences. IMPORTANT POINTS FOR COVERING SUICIDE • More than 50 research studies worldwide have found that certain types of news coverage can increase the likelihood of suicide in vulnerable individuals. The magnitude of the increase is related to the amount, duration, and prominence of coverage. • Risk of additional suicides increases when the story explicitly describes the suicide method, uses dramatic/ graphic headlines or images and repeated/extensive coverage sensationalizes or glamorizes a death. • Covering suicide carefully, even briefly, can change public misperceptions and correct myths, which can encourage those who are vulnerable or at risk to seek help. Suicide is a public health issue. Media and online coverage Suicide contagion or “copycat suicide” of suicide should be informed by using best practices. Some occurs when one or more suicides suicide deaths may be newsworthy. However, the way media are reported in a way that contributes cover suicide can influence behavior negatively by contributing to another suicide. -
Evolutionary Psychological Pers
AN EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON FILICIDE AND FILICIDE-SUICIDE by Viviana A. Weekes A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of The Charles E. Schmidt College of Science in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, Florida August 2011 Copyright by Viviana A. Weekes 2011 ii AN EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON FILICIDE AND FILICIDE-SUICIDE by Viviana A. Weekes This dissertation was prepared under the direction of the candidate's dissertation advisor, Dr. David Bjorklund, Department of Psychology, and has been approved by the members of her supervisory committee. It was submitted to the faculty of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science and was accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree ofDoctor ofPhilosophy. EE: Charles White, Ph.D. Gary W. Perr Dean, The Charles E. Sch (It College of Science 7/7//1 JSr 7'7:L...- ~ . Barry T. Rosson, Ph.D. Date Dean, Graduate College iii1Il ABSTRACT Author: Viviana A. Weekes Title: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective on Filicide and Filicide-Suicide Institution: Florida Atlantic University Dissertation Advisor: Dr. David Bjorklund Degree: Doctor of Philosophy Year: 2011 This dissertation focuses on using one tangible component of filicide, the method or weapon used by a parent to kill a child, as a means by which to understand parental psychology. An evolutionary psychological perspective (e.g., Buss, 2004; Bjorklund & Pellegrini, 2002; Daly & Wilson, 1988; Tooby & Cosmides, 1992) can provide insight into our understanding of filicide. Questions that have not been asked by previous researchers may come to the fore by using an evolutionary perspective as a guide for investigating filicide and its surrounding circumstances and contexts.