Citation

Goldney RD. Crisis 2001; 22(4): 173-175.

Affiliation

Adelaide University, The Adelaide Clinic, Gilberton, South Australia, Australia. robert.goldney@adelaide.edu.au

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Publisher Hogrefe Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11848654

Abstract

There is now unequivocal statistical evidence of an association between some media portrayals of suicide and further subsequent suicide. However, it is a weak association, and it is probably of far less importance than our need to address basic principles of good mental health management. Rather than prescribe to the media how to report suicide, its potentially positive effects should be addressed.

Language: en