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IASP Task Force - Suicide in Prisons
WHO/IASP Guidelines
Preventing Suicide in Jails and Prisons (UPDATE 2007)
Preventing Suicide: a resource for prison officers
Mandate
To bring together the available knowledge and expertise on suicidal behaviour in
prisons in order to facilitate the wider dissemination of the fundamentals of
effective suicide prevention in prisons.
Specific Tasks
- To collect the "grey literature" on suicide in prisons (reports, government
publications) and to disseminate it.
- To create a bank of official strategies of suicide prevention in prisons and to
have it available on the WEB.
- To collect available screening instruments specific to inmate populations.
- To prepare an international grant application to test these instruments.
- To prepare a one day Symposium or Workshop to be included in the next IASP
Congress in Ireland in 2007.
- To update the WHO guide "Preventing suicide. A resource for prison officers
(2000)".
Chair and Contact Person
Dr. Patrick Frottier
Medical Director of the JA Mittersteig
Mittersteig 25
A-1050 Vienna, Austria
Tel: 00-43-1-5451691-247
Fax : 00-43-1-5451691-236
Email
List of
Members (Password required)
Additional Resources
Task Forces
Defense and Police Personnel
Emergency Medicine and Suicidal Behavior
Genetics and Neurobiology of Suicide (The)
National Systems for Certifying Suicidal Deaths
Suicide and the Media
Suicide in Older People
Suicide in Prisons
Special Interest Groups
Clusters and Contagion in Suicidal Behaviour
Culture and Suicidal Behaviour
Helplines Best Practices
Postvention (Suicide Bereavement)
Prevention of Intentional Poisoning
Suicidal Behaviour in Adolescents
Suicide and the Workplace
Upcoming Events
22-25 May, 2013
International Association for Suicide Prevention Regional Symposium in the Caribbean
Suicide Prevention in Rural Caribbean
Paramaribo, Suriname
Download the Symposium flyer.
24-28 September, 2013
XXVII IASP World Congress
Preventing suicidal behaviour on five continents - Innovative treatments and interventions
Norway, Oslo
16-20 June, 2015
XXVIII IASP World Congress
New Technologies and New Discoveries in Suicide Prevention
Montréal, Québec, Canada
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