International Association for Suicide Prevention

Awards

Year	Recipient	Country
1977	M Bolt	Canada
1979	R Diekstra	The Netherlands
1981	J P Soubrier	France
1983	J Lonnqvist	Finland
1985	G Sonneck/J Beskow	Austria/Sweden
1987	R Goldney/C Pfeffer	Australia/USA
1989	P Cosyns/J Wilmotte	Belgium
1991	D De Leo	Italy
1993	D Wasserman	Sweden
1995	K Hawton	United Kingdom
1997	A Schmidtke	Germany
1999	A Roy	USA
2001	A Leenaars	Canada
2003	I Orbach	Israel
2005	K van Heeringen	Belgium
2007	J Mann	USA

Ringel Service Award (pdf)

Year	Recipient	Country
1995	Zhai Shu Tao	P.R.China
1997	Y Saito	Japan
1999	V Scott	France
2001	L Mehlum	Norway
2003	J Nagdimon	USA
2005
2007	L Ratnayeke	Sri Lanka

Farberow Award (pdf)

Year	Recipient	Country
1997	O Grad	Slovenia
1999	K Dunne Maxim/E A Dunne	USA
2001	S Clarke	Australia
2003	G H and E Weyrauch	USA
2005	K Andriessen	Belgium
2007	K Dyregrov	Norway

The Stengle Research Award

The Stengel Research Award has been provided since 1977 and is named in honour of the late Professor Erwin Stengel, one of the founders of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP). This award is for outstanding research in the field of suicidology, and nominations can be made by any member of IASP.

IASP members are invited to nominate suitable persons for the Stengel Research Award. Nominees do not necessarily have to be IASP members. The criteria for selection are:

outstanding and active researcher with at least 10 years of scientific activity in the field, as evidenced by a number of publications in internationally-acknowledged journals.
national leadership in the area.
suicidology is main (focal) area of interest/work.
author/co-author of at least one international book.
reasonable expectation (outline to be submitted) of futher research activity in the field.

The Ringel Service Award

The Ringel Service Award was instituted in 1965 and honours the late Professor Erwin Ringel, the founding President of the Association. This award is for distinguished service in the field of suicidology, and nominations can be made by National Representatives of IASP.

National Representatives of IASP are invited to nominate suitable persons to recieve the Ringel Service Award. Nominees do not necessarily have to be IASP members. The criteria for selection are:

actively involved in the practice of suicide prevention and crisis intervention and its dissemination.
acknowledged as a national initator or leader in the field.
suicide prevention and/or crisis intervention should be the main portion of his/her work.

The Farberow Award

The Farberow Award was introduced in 1997 in recognition of Professor Norman Farberow, a founding member and driving force behind the IASP. This award is for a person who has contributed significantly in the field of work with survivors of suicide, and nominations can be made by any IASP member

Members are invited to nominate suitable persons for the Farberow Award. It is for the person who in the view of the award committee has contibuted significantly in the field of work with suicide survivors. Nominees do not necessarily have to be IASP members. The criteria for selection are:

has been actively involved in the establishment and operation of bereaved through suicide/survivor programs.
has demonstrated national leadership in the area
has contributed to the research and evaluation of such programs.
will continue to involve themselves in this important area of work.