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 an update on the XXV IASP Congress to be held in Montevideo, Uraguay, and reviews IASP activities with the WHO. Read about IASP organizational member SNEHA, India. Includes country reports from Indonesia and the Ukraine.
Upcoming Events
10 September 2009
Suicide Prevention in Different Cultures
until World Suicide Prevention Day.
27-31 October 2009
XXV IASP World Congress
Montevideo, Uruguay
XXV IASP World Congress - Suicide in Different Cultures
IASP World Congresses are exciting events. They provide the opportunity to meet people from different cultures and a space to share and to learn about the latest research and cutting-edge practices in suicide prevention that are happening all over the world.
This is an event that unites a wide range of professionals, volunteers, people affected by suicide and the general public interested in suicide prevention to a common cause: the prevention of suicide.
There are a variety of specialized and general topics that encourage and motivate participants in their work. This year is our 25th World Congress and only the third to be held in Latin America.
Latin America and the Caribbean have specific challenges in the prevention of suicide, but they are also the locations of new, creative and inspiring scholarship with a growing interest in suicide research.
The XXV IASP World Congress will be hosted by the warm and welcoming city of Montevideo, Uraguay.
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.
