The following workshop will be incorporated in the Programme.
Suicide Prevention and the Media
Chair: Professor Ming-Been Lee, Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University College of Medicine: Head, Taiwan Suicide Prevention Center.
Presenters & Topics:
Ng Yin Ping – Safe messaging in Malaysia: Tailoring advocacy and engagement for suicide prevention in the community’
Jeon, HJ – Media guideline 3.0 in South Korea
Abstract: The media workshop will focus on the relationship between the up-to-date development in media guidelines or national strategies and their impact on suicide prevention. The topics will broadly cover media influences on different populations or its implications. Specific themes will include longitudinal effectiveness analysis of media guidelines adherence and the study about safe suicide-related messaging to increase suicide awareness in the community, among others. It is expected that the audience will be able to learn the most recent development and cutting-edge studies that promote further ideas to reduce suicide deaths and to create a better media environment worldwide for suicide prevention.