Community Strategies for Suicide Prevention and Intervention (IN: Suicide Over the Life Cycle, ed. by S J Blumenthal and D J Kupfer)

This chapter describes how persons in a number of different community sectors- including mental health, medicine, education, public health, & municipal government- need to play important roles in community strategies for suicide prevention. The authors describe & analyze 10 recommendations created by the Centers for Disease Control for forming a prevention program. They also discuss how & when to implement prevention programs & plans. (VM)