International resources

• Aged

  • Age of Despair: A Study of Elderly Suicide in Singapore
  • Ageing and suicide
  • National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England: Annual report on progress 2006

• Australian research and statistics

  • Ageing and suicide
  • Divergent trends in suicide by socio-economic status in Australia
  • Suicide and self- harm

• Bereavement

  • After a suicide
  • After a suicide: Practical information for people bereaved by suicide
  • After a suicide: Recommendations for religious services and other public memorial observances
  • Breaking the silence: A guide to helping children with complicated grief: suicide, homicide, AIDS, violence, and abuse.
  • Bullycide in America, Moms Speak Out About the Bullying/Suicide Connection
  • Help is at hand: A resource for people bereaved by suicide and other sudden traumatic death
  • Hope and Healing: A Practical Guide for Survivors of Suicide
  • Interventions for people bereaved by suicide: A scoping review
  • Jared's Story
  • Making use of hindsight
  • SOS: A handbook for survivors of suicide
  • SPINZ Community Information Kit
  • Suicide survivors: Those who are left behind
  • Supporting Survivors of Suicide Loss: a Guide for Funeral Directors
  • Survivors of Suicide Fact Sheet
  • The Girlfriends' Guide to What To Expect When Your Girlfriend's Grieving
  • The impact of bereavement and loss on young people
  • Traumatic grief among adolescents exposed to a peer's suicide
  • When a parent dies by suicide... What kids want to know

• Bullying

  • Bullycide in America, Moms Speak Out About the Bullying/Suicide Connection
  • Jared's Story
  • Responding to crisis at a school: A resource aid
  • Young people at risk of suicide: A guide for schools
  • Youth risk behavior surveillance — United States, 2003

• Community

  • Assessment and planning tool kit for suicide prevention in First Nation communities
  • Coming together to care: A suicide prevention toolkit for Texas communities
  • Guidance for community organisations involved in suicide postvention
  • Preventing suicide: A toolkit for mental health services
  • Public participation toolbox
  • Trapped: Street youth suicide

• Culturally and linguistically diverse

  • Age of Despair: A Study of Elderly Suicide in Singapore
  • American Indian suicides in jail: Can risk screening be culturally sensitive?
  • Suicide facts: Provisional 2003 All-Ages Statistics. Monitoring report no 1
  • Suicide in Modern Ireland: New dimensions, new responses.

• Disability

  • Not Worth Keeping Alive? News framing of physician-assisted suicide in the United States and Great Britain

• Drug and alcohol

  • Antidepressants and the Risk of Suicide, Attempted Suicide, and Overall Mortality in a Nationwide Cohort
  • International suicide rates and prevention strategies
  • Special supplement to suicide and life-threatening behaviour
  • Suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, major depressive episode, and substance use among adults
  • Youth risk behavior surveillance — United States, 2003

• Early intervention

  • Adolescent Suicide: Assessment And Intervention
  • American Indian suicides in jail: Can risk screening be culturally sensitive?
  • By their own young hand: Deliberate self harm and suicidal ideas in adolescents
  • Coping with Suicidal Thoughts
  • Depression
  • Jared's Story
  • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: After an attempt. A guide for taking care of yourself after your treatment in the Emergency Department.
  • Preventing suicide: How to start a survivors' group
  • Responding to crisis at a school: A resource aid
  • Suicide prevention: Prevention effectiveness and evaluation
  • The Assessment and Management of People at Risk of Suicide: For Emergency Departments and Mental Health Service Acute Assessment Settings
  • The Deepcut Investigation Final Report
  • The SANE guide to staying alive
  • What do we already know? Prevalence, risk factors and models of intervention. First interim enquiry report
  • What Employers Can Do to Prevent Suicide
  • Youth suicide prevention school-based guide—Issue brief 6a: Responding to a student crisis
  • Youth suicide prevention school-based guide—Issue brief 7a: Preparing for and responding to a death by suicide: Steps for responding to a Suicidal Crisis.

• Gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual

  • Clear night sky: A report into the need for Connexions national policy and target setting to meet the needs of young gay, lesbian and bisexual young people.
  • Sexual orientation and suicidal behaviour in young people

• Indigenous

  • Acting on what we know: Preventing youth suicide in First Nations

• International research and statistics

  • Acting on what we know: Preventing youth suicide in First Nations
  • Assessment and planning tool kit for suicide prevention in First Nation communities
  • Comprehensive textbook of suicidology
  • Family History of Suicide Among Suicide Victims
  • IASP Guidelines for suicide prevention
  • International suicide rates and prevention strategies
  • Penumbra self harm project: Evaluation report. How are we doing so far? (Aberdeen)
  • Preventing suicide: A resource for media professionals
  • Preventing suicide: A resource for prison officers
  • Preventing suicide: A resource for teachers and other school staff
  • Preventing suicide: How to start a survivors' group
  • Promoting the mental health of the population. Towards a strategy on mental health for the European Union
  • Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative
  • Report of the workshop on best practices in suicide prevention and the evaluation of suicide prevention programs in the Arctic
  • Restricting access to means of suicide in New Zealand: A report prepared for the Ministry of Health on methods of suicide in New Zealand, 1977 - 1996
  • Risk of suicide and related adverse outcomes after exposure to a suicide prevention programme in the US Air Force
  • SCIE Research briefing 17: Therapies and approaches for helping children and adolescents who deliberately self harm (DSH)
  • Self harm: Information for the public
  • Social explanations for suicide in New Zealand
  • SPINZ Symposium 2006: Understanding suicidal behaviour: update your knowledge and practice
  • Suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, major depressive episode, and substance use among adults
  • Suicide and the Media: Recommendations on suicide reporting for media professionals
  • Suicide facts: Provisional 2003 All-Ages Statistics. Monitoring report no 1
  • Suicide in Modern Ireland: New dimensions, new responses.
  • Suicide in the U.S.: Statistics and Prevention
  • Suicide Prevention in Europe: The WHO European monitoring survey on national suicide prevention programmes and strategies
  • Suicide Prevention: A review of evidence of risk and protective factors, and points of effective intervention
  • Taking action: Resources for effective suicide prevention programs
  • The association between suicide and the socio-economic characteristics of geographical areas : a systematic review
  • The cost of suicide to society

• Internet

  • Suicide pacts

• Men

  • Males and suicide: Pathways forward
  • Men and Suicide. Part 1: Risk Factors
  • Men and Suicide: Part II. Encouraging Help-Seeking and the Promise of Social Support
  • National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England: Annual report on progress 2006

• Mental illness

  • Antidepressants and the Risk of Suicide, Attempted Suicide, and Overall Mortality in a Nationwide Cohort
  • Depression
  • Depression and attempted suicide in adolescence
  • Family History of Suicide Among Suicide Victims
  • Gender differences in youth depression and suicidal behaviour
  • International suicide rates and prevention strategies
  • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: After an attempt. A guide for taking care of yourself after your treatment in the Emergency Department.
  • NSW Government response to 'Tracking tragedy' 2004: 2nd report of the NSW Mental Sentinel
  • Promoting the mental health of the population. Towards a strategy on mental health for the European Union
  • Safety first: Five-year report of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness
  • Suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, major depressive episode, and substance use among adults
  • The Assessment and Management of People at Risk of Suicide: For Emergency Departments and Mental Health Service Acute Assessment Settings
  • The SANE guide to staying alive
  • World mental health day. October 10 2006: Building awareness - Reducing risk: Mental illness and suicide

• Parasuicide

  • Depression and attempted suicide in adolescence
  • Facilitating a Suicide Survivors Support Group
  • Multisite intervention study on suicidal behaviours. SUPRE-MISS: components and instruments
  • Sexual orientation and suicidal behaviour in young people
  • Special supplement to suicide and life-threatening behaviour
  • Suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, major depressive episode, and substance use among adults
  • Women and parasuicide: A literature review
  • Youth suicide prevention school-based guide—Issue brief 6a: Responding to a student crisis

• Policy

  • Males and suicide: Pathways forward
  • National suicide prevention strategy for England - Consultation document.
  • Preventing suicide: A toolkit for mental health services
  • SCIE Research briefing 17: Therapies and approaches for helping children and adolescents who deliberately self harm (DSH)
  • Suicide Prevention in Europe: The WHO European monitoring survey on national suicide prevention programmes and strategies

• Postvention

  • After a suicide
  • After a suicide: Practical information for people bereaved by suicide
  • After a suicide: Recommendations for religious services and other public memorial observances
  • Breaking the silence: A guide to helping children with complicated grief: suicide, homicide, AIDS, violence, and abuse.
  • Bullycide in America, Moms Speak Out About the Bullying/Suicide Connection
  • Facilitating a Suicide Survivors Support Group
  • Guidance for community organisations involved in suicide postvention
  • HeartBeat Groups of Mutual Support Leader's Guide
  • Hope and Healing: A Practical Guide for Survivors of Suicide
  • Interventions for people bereaved by suicide: A scoping review
  • Making use of hindsight
  • SPINZ Community Information Kit
  • Suicide survivors: Those who are left behind
  • Supporting Survivors of Suicide Loss: a Guide for Funeral Directors
  • Survivors of Suicide Fact Sheet
  • The Girlfriends' Guide to What To Expect When Your Girlfriend's Grieving
  • The impact of bereavement and loss on young people
  • Traumatic grief among adolescents exposed to a peer's suicide
  • When a parent dies by suicide... What kids want to know

• Primary health care

  • Antidepressants and the Risk of Suicide, Attempted Suicide, and Overall Mortality in a Nationwide Cohort
  • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: After an attempt. A guide for taking care of yourself after your treatment in the Emergency Department.
  • Preventing suicide: A resource for general physicians
  • Self harm: The short-term physical and psychological management and secondary prevention of self harm in primary and secondary care
  • The Assessment and Management of People at Risk of Suicide: For Emergency Departments and Mental Health Service Acute Assessment Settings
  • Youth suicide prevention by primary healthcare professionals: A critical appraisal of the literature

• Recovery

  • Have your say: Report on the self harm conference
  • Hope and Healing: A Practical Guide for Survivors of Suicide
  • Youth suicide prevention school-based guide—Issue brief 7a: Preparing for and responding to a death by suicide: Steps for responding to a Suicidal Crisis.

• Resilience and vulnerability

  • SPINZ Community Information Kit
  • Suicide Prevention in Inuit Regions (Canada)

• Risk and protective factors

  • Adolescent Suicide: Assessment And Intervention
  • American Indian suicides in jail: Can risk screening be culturally sensitive?
  • DHB Toolkit: Suicide prevention
  • Males and suicide: Pathways forward
  • Men and Suicide. Part 1: Risk Factors
  • Relationship between the Economy, Unemployment and Suicide
  • Special supplement to suicide and life-threatening behaviour
  • Suicide in the U.S.: Statistics and Prevention
  • Suicide Prevention: A review of evidence of risk and protective factors, and points of effective intervention
  • The Deepcut Investigation Final Report
  • What do we already know? Prevalence, risk factors and models of intervention. First interim enquiry report
  • Working With the Client Who is Suicidal: A Tool for Adult Mental Health and Addiction Services
  • Youth risk behavior surveillance — United States, 2003
  • Youth suicide prevention school-based guide—Issue brief 3b: Risk Factors: How can a school identify a student at-risk

• Self-harm

  • “I feel like I’m invisible”: Children talking to ChildLine about self harm.
  • Adolescent self harm: An exploration of the nature and prevalence in Banyule/Nillumbik
  • Adolescents' view on prevention of self harm, barriers to help-seeking for self harm and how quality of life might be improved
  • By their own young hand: Deliberate self harm and suicidal ideas in adolescents
  • Clear night sky: A report into the need for Connexions national policy and target setting to meet the needs of young gay, lesbian and bisexual young people.
  • Closed settings, closed minds? Young people who self harm. Interim inquiry report 3
  • Deliberate self harm in children and adolescents: A research update
  • Have your say: Report on the self harm conference
  • HOPE – A follow-up to the NICCY conference on suicide and self harm
  • LifeSIGNS self-injury awareness booklet Information for people who self-injure/self-harm, their friends, family, teachers and healthcare professionals
  • Look beyond the scars: Understanding and responding to injury and self harm
  • Penumbra self harm project: Evaluation report. How are we doing so far? (Aberdeen)
  • Reducing suicide and deliberate self harm. Exploring experience: A discussion process.
  • SCIE research briefing 16: Deliberate self harm (DSH) among children and adolescents. Who is at risk and how is it recognised?
  • Self harm: Information for the public
  • Self harm: The short-term physical and psychological management and secondary prevention of self harm in primary and secondary care
  • Special supplement to suicide and life-threatening behaviour
  • Therapies and approaches for helping children and adolescents who deliberately self-harm (DSH)
  • Truth hurts: The report of the national inquiry into self harm (UK)
  • What do we already know? Prevalence, risk factors and models of intervention. First interim enquiry report
  • What's happening and who knows? Educational settings and young people who self harm. Interim inquiry report 2
  • Women and parasuicide: A literature review
  • Youth and self harm: Perspectives

• Self-help

  • What to Do if you Want to End your Life

• Suicidal behaviour

  • Relationship between the Economy, Unemployment and Suicide

• Suicide prevention

  • A scoping exercise for a review of the effectiveness of health promotion interventions of relevance to suicide prevention in young men (aged 19-34).
  • Adolescent self harm: An exploration of the nature and prevalence in Banyule/Nillumbik
  • Alberta suicide prevention strategy
  • American Indian suicides in jail: Can risk screening be culturally sensitive?
  • Assessment and planning tool kit for suicide prevention in First Nation communities
  • Coming together to care: A suicide prevention toolkit for Texas communities
  • Comprehensive textbook of suicidology
  • DHB Toolkit: Suicide prevention
  • Gender differences in youth depression and suicidal behaviour
  • Having suicidal thoughts?
  • IASP Guidelines for suicide prevention
  • International suicide rates and prevention strategies
  • Lifting the silence on suicide
  • Making use of hindsight
  • Men and Suicide: Part II. Encouraging Help-Seeking and the Promise of Social Support
  • National suicide prevention strategy for England - Consultation document.
  • National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England: Annual report on progress 2006
  • Preventing suicide: A resource for general physicians
  • Preventing suicide: A resource for prison officers
  • Public participation toolbox
  • Reducing suicide and deliberate self harm. Exploring experience: A discussion process.
  • Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative
  • Relationship between the Economy, Unemployment and Suicide
  • Report on the workshop on the suicide-related research in Canada (Montreal, February 7-8, 2003)
  • Restricting access to means of suicide in New Zealand: A report prepared for the Ministry of Health on methods of suicide in New Zealand, 1977 - 1996
  • Risk of suicide and related adverse outcomes after exposure to a suicide prevention programme in the US Air Force
  • School based youth suicide prevention guide
  • SIEC alerts
  • SOS: A handbook for survivors of suicide
  • SPINZ Community Information Kit
  • Suicide and self- harm
  • Suicide in the U.S.: Statistics and Prevention
  • Suicide pacts
  • Suicide Prevention in Europe: The WHO European monitoring survey on national suicide prevention programmes and strategies
  • Suicide Prevention in Inuit Regions (Canada)
  • Suicide Prevention Strategies: A Systematic Review
  • Suicide prevention: Prevention effectiveness and evaluation
  • Suicide Prevention: The Public Health Approach
  • Suicide sensitive journalist handbook: Suicide reporting in the mainstream media
  • Taking action: Resources for effective suicide prevention programs
  • The Deepcut Investigation Final Report
  • What Employers Can Do to Prevent Suicide
  • Women and parasuicide: A literature review
  • World mental health day. October 10 2006: Building awareness - Reducing risk: Mental illness and suicide
  • World Suicide Prevention Day: 2006. With understanding, new hope
  • Young people at risk of suicide: A guide for schools
  • Youth suicide prevention in schools: A practical guide
  • Youth suicide prevention school-based guide—Issue brief 7a: Preparing for and responding to a death by suicide: Steps for responding to a Suicidal Crisis.

• Support

  • After a suicide: Practical information for people bereaved by suicide
  • Facilitating a Suicide Survivors Support Group
  • HeartBeat Groups of Mutual Support Leader's Guide
  • LifeSIGNS self-injury awareness booklet Information for people who self-injure/self-harm, their friends, family, teachers and healthcare professionals
  • Men and Suicide: Part II. Encouraging Help-Seeking and the Promise of Social Support
  • Survivors of Suicide Fact Sheet
  • The Girlfriends' Guide to What To Expect When Your Girlfriend's Grieving
  • Trapped: Street youth suicide
  • What to Do if you Want to End your Life

• Treatment

  • Deliberate self harm in children and adolescents: A research update
  • The Assessment and Management of People at Risk of Suicide: For Emergency Departments and Mental Health Service Acute Assessment Settings
  • The international handbook of suicide and attempted suicide
  • Working With the Client Who is Suicidal: A Tool for Adult Mental Health and Addiction Services

• Warning signs and triggers

  • What Employers Can Do to Prevent Suicide
  • Youth suicide prevention school-based guide—Issue brief 3b: Risk Factors: How can a school identify a student at-risk
  • Youth suicide prevention school-based guide—Issue brief 6a: Responding to a student crisis

• Women

  • The Girlfriends' Guide to What To Expect When Your Girlfriend's Grieving
  • Women and parasuicide: A literature review

• Youth

  • “I feel like I’m invisible”: Children talking to ChildLine about self harm.
  • A scoping exercise for a review of the effectiveness of health promotion interventions of relevance to suicide prevention in young men (aged 19-34).
  • Adolescent Suicide: Assessment And Intervention
  • Adolescents' view on prevention of self harm, barriers to help-seeking for self harm and how quality of life might be improved
  • Bullycide in America, Moms Speak Out About the Bullying/Suicide Connection
  • By their own young hand: Deliberate self harm and suicidal ideas in adolescents
  • Clear night sky: A report into the need for Connexions national policy and target setting to meet the needs of young gay, lesbian and bisexual young people.
  • Depression and attempted suicide in adolescence
  • Jared's Story
  • Look beyond the scars: Understanding and responding to injury and self harm
  • National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England: Annual report on progress 2006
  • Preventing suicide: A resource for teachers and other school staff
  • Responding to crisis at a school: A resource aid
  • School based youth suicide prevention guide
  • SCIE research briefing 16: Deliberate self harm (DSH) among children and adolescents. Who is at risk and how is it recognised?
  • Self harm: Information for the public
  • Sexual orientation and suicidal behaviour in young people
  • SPINZ Community Information Kit
  • The Deepcut Investigation Final Report
  • The impact of bereavement and loss on young people
  • Therapies and approaches for helping children and adolescents who deliberately self-harm (DSH)
  • Trapped: Street youth suicide
  • Traumatic grief among adolescents exposed to a peer's suicide