Welcome!
The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) is dedicated to:
- preventing suicidal behaviour,
- alleviating its effects, and
- providing a forum for academics, mental health professionals, crisis workers, volunteers and suicide survivors.
Founded by the late Professor Erwin Ringel and Dr. Norman Farberow in 1960, IASP now includes professionals and volunteers from more than fifty different countries. IASP is a Non-Governmental Organization in official relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO) concerned with suicide prevention.
If you are feeling suicidal or know of someone who needs help, browse Help to find a crisis center anywhere in the world.
News
New General Secretary
Dr. Tony Davis has been elected General Secretary of the IASP. You can read his biographical profile by clicking here.
New IASP-WHO Publications!
Two publications are now available for download:
(1) The updated media guidelines completed by the IASP Media Task force: Preventing Suicide: a Resource for Media Professionals
(2) The revised booklet prepared by the IASP Postvention Task Force: How to Start a Survivors' Group
Four Suicide and the Media Guidelines have been added:
- Mindframe: Mental Illness and Suicide - A Resource for Stage and Screen
- Mindframe: Mental Illness and Suicide in the Media - A Resource for Courts
- Mindframe: Mental Illness and Suicide in the Media - A Resource for Police
- Mindframe: Suicide and Mental Illness in the Media
Download our latest newsletter
President Dr Lanny Berman, discusses how mental health professionals and institutions may be and
are held liable for the death by suicide for a patient in their care, and the potential for this issue to be of significant concern to mental health clinicians and treating institutions around the globe.
A review of the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) is offered by Dr Jerry Reed, IASP Chair, Council of Organisational Representatives.
Read the report from National Representative, Sunny Collings, Associate Professor, University of Otago, Wellington, about Suicide in New Zealand.
Details IASP 2nd Vice President, Professor Paul Yip, has been awarded the Outstanding
Researcher Award from the University of Hong Kong for his contribution to suicide prevention research in Hong Kong and the region.
Dr Ella Arensman, IASP 3rd Vice President, pens an article entitled, "Effectiveness of restricting access to means and methods of suicide and deliberate self harm."
Find Conferences and Symposium announcements.
Download our latest Postvention Newsletter
Download the December newsletter of the IASP Task Force on Suicide Postvention or Bereavement. Browse to read:
- "Leaving 'It Can Never Happen Here': Suicide Prevention in the Workplace" by Sally Spenser Thomas, or
- "At Your Service-The Suicide Information and Education Collection" by Myra Morrant, or
- "Implementation of a Suicide Support and Information System (SSIS): A Pilot Study in Ireland" by Dr. Ella Arensman.
Find Postvention Task Force contact details.
Upcoming Events
21-24 April 2010
43rd Annual Conference of the American Association of Suicidology
Families, Community Systems and Suicide
Hilton at the Walt Disney World Resort
Orlando, Florida, USA
www.suicidology.org
info@suicidology.org
202-237-2280
1-4 September 2010
13th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicide Behaviour
Rome, Italy
Integrating Knowledge for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Suicidology and Suicide Prevention
Click here to download the 13th ESSSB flyer.
The major aim of the 13th ESSSB is to investigate possible modalities and paths of integration between research, prevention and treatment of suicidal behaviour.
The scientific program will comprise plenary lectures with invited international experts in the field of suicidology and suicide prevention, CME courses, workshops and symposia. All participants are invited to submit proposals for parallel sessions and abstracts for free communications and posters.
There will also be a rich social program, for all participants, where it will be possible to choose between several cultural and recreational activities.
17-20 November 2010
4th IASP Asia Pacific Regional Conference
Brisbane, Australia
Suicide Prevention: A Dialogue Across Disciplines and Cultures
21-24 September, 2011
XXVI IASP World Congress
Beijing, China
