Best Practices in Crisis Prevention and Management (IN: Best Practices in School Psychology IV, vol.2, ed. by A Thomas and J Grimes)

Newspaper Reporting of Suicide Cases in Hong Kong

This study addresses concerns over newspapers’ reporting of suicide cases in Hong Kong, using the WHO guidelines on the reporting of suicide news as a reference for comparison. The authors compared the official suicide information extracted from the Coroner’s Court for the year 2000 with newspaper reports of suicides taken from 5 major Chinese local […]

The Western Health and Social Services Board, Northern Ireland, Suicide Prevention Strategy

Published in “Back to the Future: Refocusing the Image of Suicide,” ed. by J L McIntosh

Body-Count Journalism: the Presentation of Mass Murder in the News Media

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Media and Suicide

Published in “Back to the Future: Refocusing the Image of Suicide,” ed. by J L McIntosh

Another Side of Multiple Murder: Women Killers in the Domestic Context

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Suicide Reporting in Print Media: an Evaluation of the Effect of Guidelines Issued to Editors and Journalists

Published in “The Suicidal Process: Challenges for Treatment and Prevention”

Risky News, Madness and Public Crisis: a Case Study of the Reporting and Portrayal of Mental Health and Illness in the Australian Press

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Attitudes in the Media Toward Suicide – Preliminary Results of the International Headline Study

Published in “The Suicidal Process: Challenges for Treatment and Prevention”

Jumpers: the Fatal Grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge

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Changes of Labelling of Suicidal Behavior in Media Reports in Lithuania 1994 and 1996

Published in “The Suicidal Process: Challenges for Treatment and Prevention”

The Importance of ‘Morality’ in the Social Construction of Suicide in Scottish Newspapers

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Suicide Reporting in Turkish Media

Published in “The Suicidal Process: Challenges for Treatment and Prevention”

The Effect of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks on Suicide and Deliberate Self-Harm: a Time Trend Study

The authors investigated the possible impact of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on suicidal behaviour in the Netherlands. There was evidence of an increase in rates of suicide & deliberate self-harm in the weeks immediately following the attacks. The contrast of these findings with Durkheim’s original suggestion that suicide rates decline in times […]

Suicide in the Media: a Quantitative Review of Studies Based on Nonfictional Stories

The authors reviewed recent research on the effect of suicide stories in the media on real-life suicide rates. Logistic regression techniques applied to 419 findings from 55 studies determined that: studies measuring the presence of an entertainment or political celebrity were 5.27 times more likely to find a copycat effect; studies focusing on stories that […]

School Shootings and the Man-bites-dog Criterion of Newsworthiness

Projection of Persuasive Press? Contrary Effects of Personal Opinion and Perceived News Coverage on Estimates of Public Opinion

Communication Research in Everyday Contexts: Informing the Australian Government’s Public Health Strategy on Mass Media Reporting and Portrayal of Suicide and Mental Illness

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Highlighting the Truth: a Media Outreach Project

Psychiatry and the Media

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Covering Suicide Worldwide: Media Responsibilities

The Vermont Suicide Prevention Plan Draft

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Feeling the Heat

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