Citation

Konrad N, Daigle MS, Daniel AE, Dear GE, Frottier P, Hayes LM, Kerkhof A, Liebling A, Sarchiapone M. Crisis 2007; 28(3): 113-121.

Affiliation

Institute of Forensic Psychiatry Charite, Berlin, Germany. norbert.konrad@charite.de

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Publisher Hogrefe Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17992824

Abstract

In 2000 the Department of Mental Health of the World Health Organization (WHO) published a guide named Preventing Suicide. A Resource for Prison Officers as part of the WHO worldwide initiative for the prevention of suicide. In 2007 there are new epidemiological data on prison suicide, a more detailed discussion of risk factors accounting for the generally higher rate of suicide in correctional settings in comparison to the general population, and several strategies for developing screening instruments. As a first step, this paper presents an update of the WHO guide by the Task Force on Suicide in Prisons, created by the International Association for Suicide Prevention. A second paper, by the same Task Force, will present some international comparisons of suicide prevention services in correctional facilities.

Language: en