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IASP - Grupos de trabajo: El suicidio y los medios de comunicación
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IASP Task Force on Suicide and the Media
In recent years, most countries which have developed national suicide prevention strategies have included the development of guidelines that have attempted to promote accurate, responsible and ethical reporting of suicide in the media. These guidelines have arisen from a substantial body of evidence that suggests that incautious media reporting and portrayal of suicide has the potential to encourage imitative behaviour among vulnerable individuals. They are designed to promote responsible reporting of suicide, but have sometimes been misinterpreted by media professionals as promoting censorship. Such misunderstandings about these media guidelines have led to a reluctance among many journalists to adopt them. There is a need for improved collaboration with media professionals to reach a consensus on this issue. The newly-formed IASP Task Force on Suicide and the Media is taking up this challenge.
Goals
The Task Force has the following goals:
- To improve linkages between suicide experts and media professionals;
- To systematically review research about suicide and the media (including evaluations of media guidelines), to identify gaps in knowledge, to develop a research agenda to address these gaps, and to encourage relevant research;
- To identify, collect and collate media guidelines which have been developed around the world, and examine and report on their content, development and implementation;
- To work collaboratively with media professionals to develop recommendations for developing and implementing media guidelines;
- To work collaboratively with media professionals to promote media guidelines to journalists, editors and other stakeholders; and
- To provide an international body of experts that can provide authoritative comment on issues regarding suicide and the media, including issues surrounding media guidelines.
Planned activities
The above goals will be achieved through the following activities:
- Develop a ‘virtual network’ of individuals and organisations with an interest in suicide and the media (including suicide experts and media professionals);
- Review and report on suicide and the media projects, and encourage international collaborative research on these matters;
- Act as a clearing house for international guidelines on suicide and the media, and provide summary information on their content and the processes by which they have been developed and implemented;
- Produce recommendations for developing and implementing media guidelines;
- Organise symposia on suicide and the media at IASP congresses;
- Develop a section on suicide and the media on the IASP website to increase awareness of IASP members about this issue;
- Develop a bank of experts to act as an internationally recognised, IASP-backed spokesgroup on issues relating to suicide and the media.
Chair and Contact Person
The Task Force is chaired by Jane Pirkis from Australia. Interested parties can contact Jane directly:
Associate Professor Jane Pirkis
Program Evaluation Unit
School of Population Health
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
AUSTRALIA
Ph: +61 3 8344 0647
Fax: +61 3 9348 1174
Email: j.pirkis@unimelb.edu.au
