International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP)

Become familiar with these guidelines prepared by the WHO and the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) Task Force on Suicide and the Media.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Resources for Journalism Education offers this guideline concerning the reporting of suicide and mental health issues. See Accuracy: Looking Beyond the Facts.

Shares a guideline on the reporting on suicide in the media. See how to decrease the probability of an imitation effect.

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.

Offers the Do's and Don'ts, in this Flemish guideline, for the reporting of suicide by the media. See "Zelfdoding en imitatie."

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.

In Flemish, this guideline encourages the development of an editorial policy for the reporting of suicide in the media.

Bilingual (English/French) document, published by the Mental Health Commission of New Brunswick, offers this resource prepared by Oswald LeBlanc.

Discover this resource distributed by the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention. See "Myths and Facts about Suicide."

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.

Subtitled " Empfehlungen für die Berichterstattung in den Medien," this resource provides guidelines for the reporting of suicide in the media.