You might feel nervous asking someone you care about if they’re suicidal on the phone or online. But a person who is struggling may actually find it easier to communicate this way than face-to-face.
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Alan Collins, Nottingham Trent University and Adam Cox, University of Portsmouth
We must put in measures to protect the young as well as the old.
Workplace-related suicide can have several different motivations. The recent shooting at a Molson Coors plant in Milwaukee may have been fuelled by racism against the perpetrator.
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People who take their own lives as a career response have different motives at different stages of their careers. This could help us understand the recent Molson Coors shooting in Milwaukee.
The social pressures to be ‘straight’ and ‘cis’ can be overwhelming for LGBTQ+ people, especially youth. Adding conversion therapy to the criminal code of Canada is a good first step to supporting them.
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The Trudeau government took the first step to federally ban conversion therapy — a practice intended to change sexual orientation.
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It is important that police forces and the CPS are able to recognise that coercive control and couple violence are different and require different handling.
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Expanding suicide prevention frameworks to include aged care residents, aligning nursing home life with community living, and improving residents’ access to mental heath services will be key.
One-fifth of U.S. teen girls reported experiencing major depression in 2017.
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A new US study has found warmer temperatures will lead to more deaths from injury, for example in transport accidents, drownings, assaults and suicides. But what does this mean for Australia?
Refugees without permanent visas can experience a prolonged sense of insecurity and displacement.
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We found refugees with insecure visas had poorer mental health than refugees with secure visas. But social interaction with the wider community seems to help.
Research shows that cannabis use by people living with post-traumatic stress disorder may reduce their likelihood of depression and suicide.
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The rates of suicide among males working in the construction industry are almost double the rates seen overall among Australian men.
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Research shows construction workers are at higher risk of mental illness and suicide than people in other jobs. Addressing this must start with dismantling the ‘macho’ culture on work sites.
Suicide is a growing health problem.
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Suicide is the second leading cause of death for teens in America. But there may be ways to study the stress response and figure out who is most at risk.
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A new study looks at whether deaths by suicide could be lowered with mental health care. To a small degree, yes. But a look at the costs suggests there may be better ways to prevent shooting deaths.
Principal Research Fellow, Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, National Centre of Excellence in Suicide Prevention, Griffith University