International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP)

Offers a Letter from the President, Reports from IASP Councils, a listing of IASP award winners and and article by Dr Ella Arensman entitled, "The Economic Recession and Suicidal Behaviour." See upcoming conferences and symposia.

Announces a new IASP TASK Force on Best Practice Standards in Suicide Prevention for Helplines, chaired by Dawn O'Neil. Learn about IASP awards offered.

Provides country reports from The Netherlands and Romania. Read a greeting to members from the editor of the IASP Postvention Task Force newsletter, Jill Fisher.

Details suicide prevention activities in Denmark. Browse to learn about Sri Lanka Sumithrayo, the only organisation in Sri Lanka whose primary objective is the prevention of suicide. Shares a report on an inaugural academic meeting and training at the Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Center.

Reports the death of Dr. Edwin S. Shneidman, founding president of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS), and details his accomplishments. Offers country reports from Uganda and Malaysia. Read the president's article, "Benefits and Harm from the Internet."

Offers an update on the XXV IASP Congress to be held in Montevideo, Uraguay, and reviews IASP activities with the WHO. Read about IASP organizational member SNEHA, India. Includes country reports from Indonesia and the Ukraine.

Details the IASP Central Administrative Office will move to the Gaustad Campus of the University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine, and that the IASP journal, Crisis, will be now published six times a year. Notes there will be a launch activity at the United Nations Headquarters in New York for World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September, 2009. Learn about Partnership for Children's Zippy's Friends, now in Beijing, or read about the latest development in suicide prevention in Hong Kong, SAR.

Features an article from outgoing IASP President, Prof. Brian Mishara, who discusses progress made and work to be done by the Association. Read about the announced merger between the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and the Suicide Prevention Action Network USA (SPAN USA). Details World Suicide Prevention Day 2009 and profiles IASP's website and webmaster Kenneth Hemmerick.