Welcome!
The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) is dedicated to:
- preventing suicidal behaviour,
- alleviating its effects, and
- providing a forum for academians, mental health professionals, crisis workers, volunteers and suicide survivors.
Founded by the late Professor Erwin Ringel and Dr. Norman Farberow in 1960, IASP now includes professionals and volunteers from more than fifty different countries. IASP is a Non-Governmental Organization in official relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO) concerned with suicide prevention.
If you are feeling suicidal or know of someone who needs help, browse Help to find a crisis center anywhere in the world.
News
New IASP-WHO Publications!
Two publications are now available for download:
(1) The updated media guidelines completed by the IASP Media Task force: Preventing Suicide: a Resource for Media Professionals
(2) The revised booklet prepared by the IASP Postvention Task Force: How to Start a Survivors’ Group
Four Suicide and the Media Guidelines have been added:
- Mindframe: Mental Illness and Suicide - A Resource for Stage and Screen
- Mindframe: Mental Illness and Suicide in the Media - A Resource for Courts
- Mindframe: Mental Illness and Suicide in the Media - A Resource for Police
- Mindframe: Suicide and Mental Illness in the Media
Download our latest newsletter
Offers a letter from the new President, Dr Lanny Berman, who shares his long-standing experience with the IASP and his work in suicidology, and discusses his present and future hopes for the Association.
Read reports, provided by the IASP Council of Organizational Representatives and the IASP Council of National Representatives, of their respective meetings in Montevideo, Uruguay, during the XXV IASP World Congress.
Learn about IASP award recipients including Professor Mark Williams (Stengel Research Award), Dr Frank Campbell (Farberow Award), and Dr Alireza Ahmadi, MD. (De Leo Fund Award).
Dr Ella Arensman has penned an article entitled, "The Economic Recession and Suicidal Behaviour."
Find announcements for upcoming conferences and symposia.
Download our latest Postvention Newsletter
Download the December newsletter of the IASP Task Force on Suicide Postvention or Bereavement. Browse to read:
- "Leaving 'It Can Never Happen Here': Suicide Prevention in the Workplace" by Sally Spenser Thomas, or
- "At Your Service-The Suicide Information and Education Collection" by Myra Morrant, or
- "Implementation of a Suicide Support and Information System (SSIS): A Pilot Study in Ireland" by Dr. Ella Arensman.
Find Postvention Task Force contact details.
Upcoming Events
1-4 September 2010
13th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicide Behaviour
Rome, Italy
Integrating Knowledge for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Suicidology and Suicide Prevention
Click here to download the 13th ESSSB flyer.
The major aim of the 13th ESSSB is to investigate possible modalities and paths of integration between research, prevention and treatment of suicidal behaviour.
The scientific program will comprise plenary lectures with invited international experts in the field of suicidology and suicide prevention, CME courses, workshops and symposia. All participants are invited to submit proposals for parallel sessions and abstracts for free communications and posters.
There will also be a rich social program, for all participants, where it will be possible to choose between several cultural and recreational activities.
17-20 November 2010
4th IASP Asia Pacific Regional Conference
Brisbane, Australia
Suicide Prevention: A Dialogue Across Disciplines and Cultures
21-24 September, 2011
XXVI IASP World Congress
Beijing, China
