Links: Suicide

Suicide Intervention Documents from BC Mental Health & Addictions:

• Working with the client who is suicidal: a tool for adult mental health & addiction services [PDF download, 120 pages]
• Hope and healing: a practical guide for survivors of suicide [PDF download, 44 pages] 

• Quarterly digest. Select a volume, then click on External Causes of Death to view suicide statistics. BC Vital Statistics Agency

Statistics: Canada & World

• Suicidal thoughts, by age group and sex, household population aged 15 and over, Canada excluding territories, 2002. Statistics Canada
• Suicidal thoughts, by sex, household population aged 15 and over, Canada and provinces, 2002. Statistics Canada
• Mental health statistics (US)
• Suicide prevention. This WHO site provides suicide rates and absolute numbers of suicide by country.

Other resources:

• American Association of Suicidology
• Means matter: suicide, guns, and public health. This resource is devoted to reducing suicide by reducing a suicidal person’s access to lethal means, especially firearms, during a crisis. Provides research summaries, practical strategies not involving gun control or legislative agendas, an introduction to “lethal means counseling”, and program examples. Harvard Injury Control Research Center
• National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (US)
• Struggling in silence: physician depression and suicide. The website for the PBD documentary
• Suicide. eMedicine
• Suicide prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
• Suicide prevention. NIMH (US)
• SPRC: Suicide Prevention Resource Center (US)
• Best practices registry for suicide prevention
• The Suicide Prevention and Research Unit (University of Oslo)
• University of Oxford Centre for Suicide Research

Last updated or reviewed January 4, 2010