Suicide Prevention

Learning from personal experiences, and the lived experience of other survivors, Dr Sandersan Onie shares his work that uses online data tracking to serve targeted suicide prevention ads.

Dr. Holly Dubois, chief clinical officer at Mindstrong, a digital mental health company, talks about virtual care’s role and offers a look at a special telemedicine program designed to prevent suicide among veterans.

In the UK, a quarter of people who take their own lives were in contact with a health professional the previous week, and most have spoken to someone within the last month. Yet assessing patient suicide risk remains extremely difficult.     There were 5,219 recorded deaths by suicide in England in 2021. While …

A guide to how parents and carers can help young people communicate safely online about suicide is now available in 11 languages. The #chatsafe for parents and carers guide recognises that many young people will discuss suicide and self-harm online, and that their carers may worry about this.

Like it or not, young people use social media all the time to talk about suicide-related thoughts, feelings and behaviours…So rather than to take the view that you shouldn’t talk about suicide on social media, we decided that it was important to develop some safety guidelines for young people who …