IASP Special Interest Groups offer the opportunity for our community of members, researchers, professionals, lay people and volunteers to focus deeply on a specific aspect of suicide and suicide prevention. Please browse the following links to see the work of these groups:
The Helplines Best Practices special interest group was established within IASP to encourage sharing of experience amongst helpline practitioners and utilisation of research/evaluation findings towards improved satisfaction and outcomes for callers.
The Prevention of Intentional Pesticide Poisoning SIG aims to prevent pesticide poisoning and to promote the development and use of evidence on restricting access to means, regulation, training, and improved medical management.
This SIG aims to integrate lived experience throughout IASP activities, share information and good practice relating to lived experience with national and international suicide prevention organisations, and promote and support the establishment of lived experience networks/communities globally.
The main goal of the Suicide Among Older Adults special interest group is to support research and network between researchers dedicated to the study and prevention of suicide in older adults.
The purpose of the SIG is to conduct research collaboratively. The studies done by this group will not only explore the process of the cultural adaptation of measures, but will provide clinical information to inform prevention programs within at-risk cultural groups.
This special interest group establishes guidelines that promote the accurate, responsible and ethical reporting of suicide in the media.
Explore the special interest group focusing on suicide bereavement and the survivors of suicide.
The purpose of this special interest group is to pursue a collective and shared interest in suicide prevention for LGBTQIA+ people by promoting and advocating for existing and emerging research.
Discover this special interest group focusing on issues relating to suicide prevention in primary care.
Discover this special interest group focusing on issues relating to suicide and the workplace.
Discover this special interest group focusing on issues relating to suicide prevention and boys and men.
The aim of the Education and Training in Suicide Prevention special interest group is to support the development of high-quality education and training in suicide prevention around the world.
The Intellectual Disability, Autism and Neurodiversity Special Interest Group was proposed to address the urgent need to reduce shockingly high suicide rates among people with intellectual disability and autistic people.
Discover this special interest group focusing on accelerating and strengthening the evidence base for suicide and self-harm prevention in children, adolescents and young adults.
This Special Interest Group aims to bring together people who are interested and/or have expertise in social determinants of suicide to work together to address these determinants to prevent suicide.
The Climate Change and Suicidality Special Interest Group was created to tackle the increasingly urgent threat of climate change and its potential influence on suicidal thoughts and behaviours.
The Suicide Prevention in the Criminal Justice Sector Special Interest Group aims to enhance suicide prevention and postvention approaches for people in contact with the criminal justice sector by supporting research, connecting academics, practitioners, and those with lived experience, and advocating for evidence-based practice.
