International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) - Resources: Suicide and the Media
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| Preventing Suicide: a Resource for Media Professionals - http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/resource_media.pdf Become familiar with these guidelines prepared by the WHO and the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) Task Force on Suicide and the Media. |
| Hvordan forebygge selvmord En veileder for mediefolk - http://www.iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/WHO_selvmordsforebygging_081106.pdf Heftet henvender seg til mediefolk som arbeider i aviser, i radio og TV og på nettet. De fleste anbefalingene gjelder for alle medier, mens noen bare er relevante for de trykte mediene. |
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| AUSTRALIA - Mindframe: Mental Illness and Suicide - A Resource for Stage and Screen - http://www.iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/mindframe_for_stage_and_screen_2009.pdf Resource offers practical advice and information for people involved in the development of Australian film, television and theatre. It is designed to help inform truthful and authentic portrayals of mental illness and suicide. |
| AUSTRALIA - Mindframe: Mental Illness and Suicide in the Media - A Resource for Courts - http://www.iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/mindframe_for_courts_2009.pdf Resource contains practical information for courts to support their direct and indirect interactions with the media. It contains suggestions for providing or managing information about mental illness or suicide that are consistent with best practice guidelines for reporting. |
| AUSTRALIA - Mindframe: Mental Illness and Suicide in the Media - A Resource for Police - http://www.iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/mindframe_for_police_2009.pdf Resource provides practical advice for police to support their interactions with the media and suggests ways of talking about suicide and mental illness that are consistent with best practice guidelines for reporting. |
| AUSTRALIA - Mindframe: Suicide and Mental Illness in the Media - http://www.iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/mindframe_resource_for_mental_health_and_suicide_prevention_sectors_2009.pdf Suicide and Mental Illness in the Media has been produced as part of the Australian Government’s Mindframe National Media Initiative. This Initiative aims to encourage responsible, accurate and sensitive portrayal of suicide, mental illness and mental health through a range of projects. |
| AUSTRALIA - Reporting Suicide and Mental Illness - http://www.iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/Australia_Reporting.pdf Provides practical advice and information to support the work of media professionals. It is designed to inform responsible and appropriate reporting of suicide and mental illness in order to reduce harm and copycat behaviour. |
| AUSTRALIA - Response Ability - http://iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/Australia_Response_Ability.pdf Resources for Journalism Education offers this guideline concerning the reporting of suicide and mental health issues. See Accuracy: Looking Beyond the Facts. |
| AUSTRIA - Austria media guidelines for the reporting on sucide (2005) - http://www.iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/austrian_media_guidelines.pdf Shares a guideline on the reporting on suicide in the media. See how to decrease the probability of an imitation effect. |
| AUSTRIA - Leitfaden zur Berichterstattung über Suizid - http://www.iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/Austria_Leitfaden_Berichterstattung.pdf Das Kriseninterventionszentrum Wien hat diese Empfehlungen zur Berichterstattung über Suizide für JournalistInnen erstellt, da auch diese Berufsgruppe einen wertvollen Beitrag zur Suizidprävention leisten kann, indem Aspekte von Imitationsverhalten beachtet werden. |
| BELGIUM - Als journalist kan je levens redden - http://www.iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/belgium_als_journalist_kan_je_levens_redden.pdf Offers the Do's and Don'ts, in this Flemish guideline, for the reporting of suicide by the media. See "Zelfdoding en imitatie." |
| BELGIUM - Suicide et presse - Reflexions a l'usage des medias - http://www.iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/Belgium_Reflexions_Medias.pdf Cette plaquette à l’usage des médias a pour ambition de fournir aux professionnels, qui s’interrogent sur la meilleure manière de relater un suicide, des indications sur l’état des connaissances et sur la meilleure façon de le faire. |
| BELGIUM - Zelfdoding en de pers - Aanbevelingen voor journalisten - http://www.iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/Belgium_Aanbevelingen_Journalisten.pdf In Flemish, this guideline encourages the development of an editorial policy for the reporting of suicide in the media. |
| CANADA - Guidelines in Dealing with the Media in the Event of a Suicide - http://www.iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/Canada_Guidelines_Media.pdf Bilingual (English/French) document, published by the Mental Health Commission of New Brunswick, offers this resource prepared by Oswald LeBlanc. |
| CANADA - Suicide - A media resource book - http://www.iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/Canada_Media_Resource_Book.pdf Discover this resource distributed by the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention. See "Myths and Facts about Suicide." |
| ENGLAND - Working with the Media - http://www.iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/England_Working%20with%20the%20Media.pdf Produced by the World Health Communication Associates, this publication is designed to help health communicators become more media-wise, to work actively and effectively with the media to advocate for healthier behaviours, choices and policies. |
| GERMANY - Suizid, Suizidversuche und Suizidalität - http://iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/Germany_Suizide%20Suizidversuche%20und%20Suizidalitat.pdf Subtitled " Empfehlungen für die Berichterstattung in den Medien," this resource provides guidelines for the reporting of suicide in the media. |
| HONG KONG - Hong Kong Journalists Association 香港記者協會 - Press Release - http://iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/HongKong_Press_Release.pdf Press release on media ethics details that the HKJA encourages media organizations to focus on underlying suicide trends, instead of individual cases. |
| HONG KONG - Suicide and the Media: Recommendations on Suicide Reporting for Media Professionals - http://iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/HongKong_Recommendations_Media.pdf Browse to become familiar with this publication published by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Centre for Suicide Prevention and Research - Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong. |
| INDIA - Suicide Prevention: Information for Media Professionals - http://iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/India_Information_Media_Professionals.pdf Explore this guideline prepared by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences designed for media professionals. |
| IRELAND - Media Guidelines for the Protrayal of Suicide - http://iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/Ireland_Media_Guidelines.pdf Produced by the Irish Association of Suicidology and the Samaritans, this guideline offers information and advice about factual and dramatic portrayals of suicide in the media. |
| JAPAN - Recommendations for the Mass Media Reporting on Youth Suicide - http://iasp.info/pdf/task_forces/Japan_Recommendations_Media_Youth.pdf Browse to read this guideline written by Yoshitomo Takahashi, M.D. of the Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry. |




