Achievements and Challenges in Suicidology: Conclusions and Future Directions

International Handbook of Suicide Prevention: Research, Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 625-642

  O'Connor, Rory C ^a   Platt, Stephen ^b   Gordon, Jacki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Jacki Gordon + Associates   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Achievements and challenges in suicidology conclusions and future directions; Appreciation of scale, incidence and prevalence of self harm and suicide; Growth in crisis helplines receiving calls from those, distressed or suicidal; Impetus for Handbook, growing out of 12th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour (ESSSB12); Practice achievements, an overlap with research and policy domains; Suicide prevention initiative sustainability as a key policy challenge; Suicide prevention programme sustainability challenge, for countries with implementation models; Suicidology's challenges, forthcoming years to understanding suicide, instead of explaining suicide; Suicidology, fragmented picture need for ongoing dialogue, and research evidence; Summary of suicidology's achievements in past 25 years, by suicidology experts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886198278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119998556.ch36     Document Type: Chapter

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