IASP - Resources: Clusters and Contagion in Suicidal Behaviour
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| Special Interest Group - Clusters and Contagion in Suicidal Behaviour IASP Special Interest Group (SIG) on Clusters and Contagion in Suicidal Behaviour is created to bring together interested people in research, prevention and policy, who can share information and expertise in clusters and contagion effects in suicidal behaviour worldwide. See Objectives. - Read more http://iasp.info/clusters_and_contagion_in_suicidal_behaviour.php | |
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| Bridgend Samaritans - Clustering and Contagion of Suicide Download this PowerPoint presentation that discusses suicide cluster and contagion among young people in the UK. See effective interventions listed. - Read more http://goo.gl/xpSXi | |
| Cluster Suicides - Copycat Suicides Download this handout that was given at a suicide prevention workshop at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. See contagion examples or circles of vulnerability. - Read more http://www.uwsp.edu/conted/ConfWrkShp/Documents/crisis/handouts/Session22.pdf | |
| Community Plan for the Prevention and Containment of Suicide Clusters Read the recommendations offered by the Center for Disease Control. - Read more http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001755.htm | |
| Contagion, Mimesis, Internalization: A Cultural Model of Suicide Michael J. Kral authors this paper that explores whether suicide as mimesis, as copying, is an important way of understanding this form of death. He argues suicide is a cultural phenomenon. - Read more http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/kralspaper.pdf | |
| Farmer Suicide Contagion Mudit Kapoor and Shamika Ravi of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India, discuss farmer suicide in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. See the conclusion. - Read more http://www.scribd.com/doc/63944342/Farmer-Suicide-Contagion-India-Kapoor-Ravi | |
| Media Contagion and Suicide Among the Young Paper by Madelyn Gould, Patrick Jamieson and Daniel Romer reveals that "there is ample evidence from the literature on suicide clusters and the impact of the media to support the contention that suicide is 'contagious.'" - Read more http://www.columbia.edu/itc/hs/medical/bioethics/nyspi/material/MediaContagionAndSuicide.pdf | |
| PloSOne - Cultural Dynamics of Copycat Suicide (The) Paper by Alex Mesoudi offers a model that reinforces the need for efforts to counter the social transmission of suicide-related information. - Read more http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0007252 | |
| Postvention as Prevention: One community’s story Learn how Schenectady, New York, mobilized after a rash of teen suicides in this report published by TeenScreen (Columbia University) and the Schenectady School System. See lessons learned or discover TeenScreen postvention. - Read more http://www.teenscreen.org/wp-content/uploads/SchnectSuicidePrevention1.pdf | |
| Psychiatry and Society in Pune - How to stop copycat suicides in students Pune, India, psychiatrist Dr Neville Misquitta discusses suicide point and mass clusters. See Causes of ‘copycat’ suicide or Prevention of copycat suicide. - Read more http://blog.pathfinderclinic.com/2011/01/how-to-stop-copycat-suicides-in.html | |
| QuickLits: Suicide Contagion Suicide prevention guide, created by the Campus Suicide Prevention Center of Virginia, offers definitions of terms: contagion, cluster, copy-cat and pact. Outlines media coverage and contagion risk, and strategic prevention. - Read more http://www.campussuicidepreventionva.org/QUICK%20LIT_Suicide%20Contagion.pdf | |
| Search to Identify Contagion Operating Within Suicide Clusters (The) Paper by Leonore Hanssens discusses the search to identify contagion operating within suicide clusters in indigenous communities, Northern Territory, Australia. - Read more http://tinyurl.com/7ymb3nh | |
| Suicide (Echo) Clusters Paper by Leonore Hanssens asks "Are Suicide (Echo) Clusters Socially Determined, the Result of a Pre-existing Vulnerability in Indigenous Communities in the Northern Territory and How Can We Contain Cluster Suicides? - Read more http://www.nt.gov.au/lant/parliamentary-business/committees/ctc/youth-suicides/Submissions/Sub%20No.%2015,%20Leonore%20Hanssens,%20Part%2010,%2030%20Sept%202011.pdf | |
| Suicide Clusters and Contagion Discover this publication by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) that stresses principals play a pivotal role in the early recognition of indicators that may promote the process of contagion. - Read more http://www.nasponline.org/resources/principals/Suicide_Clusters_NASSP_Sept_%2009.pdf | |
