IASP Task Force - Suicide in Prisons
IASP Task Force on Suicide in Prisons
Mandate
To bring together the available knowledge and expertise on suicidal behaviour in prisons in order to facilitate the wider dissemination of the fundamentals of effective suicide prevention in prisons.
Specific Tasks
- To collect the "grey literature" on suicide in prisons (reports, government publications) and to disseminate it.
- To create a bank of official strategies of suicide prevention in prisons and to have it available on the WEB.
- To collect available screening instruments specific to inmate populations.
- To prepare an international grant application to test these instruments.
- To prepare a one day Symposium or Workshop to be included in the next IASP Congress in Ireland in 2007.
- To update the WHO guide "Preventing suicide. A resource for prison officers (2000)".
Chair and Contact Person
Prof. Marc Daigle (member of IASP)
Centre for Research and Intervention on Suicide and Euthanasia
Philippe Pinel Research Center
University of Québec at Trois-Rivières
P. O. Box 500, Trois-Rivières
Québec, Canada, G9A 5H7
Tel: 819-376-5011
Fax: 819-376-5195
Email: marc.daigle@uqtr.ca
