The mental health impact from the coronavirus pandemic is likely to be significant. But putting a figure on the projected increase in suicides may not be accurate – and is unlikely to be helpful.
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The U.S. suicide rate has been increasing for decades. According to a sociologist who studies suicide, depression is just one factor among many implicated social conditions.
With the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, veterans who were already lacking adequate benefits and resources are now in deeper trouble.
New funding aims to fend off a wave of mental ill-health in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. We don’t know how severe that wave will be, but we do know financial hardship is a huge risk factor.
The number of lives that would be lost from COVID-19 if the restrictions ended far exceed the number of extra deaths expected from recession if it continued.
Even before this pandemic, international students were exposed to several unique hardships. These are compounded by COVID-19.
We’ve prevented many deaths, many of them at the cost of other deaths. The accounting ought to be made clear.
You might feel nervous asking someone you care about if they’re suicidal on the phone or online. But a person who is struggling may actually find it easier to communicate this way than face-to-face.
With the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, veterans who were already lacking adequate benefits and resources are now in deeper trouble.
We must put in measures to protect the young as well as the old.
People who take their own lives as a career response have different motives at different stages of their careers. This could help us understand the recent Molson Coors shooting in Milwaukee.
The Trudeau government took the first step to federally ban conversion therapy — a practice intended to change sexual orientation.
It is important that police forces and the CPS are able to recognise that coercive control and couple violence are different and require different handling.
Detainees, held in a perpetual state of powerlessness, try to support each other.
Expanding suicide prevention frameworks to include aged care residents, aligning nursing home life with community living, and improving residents’ access to mental heath services will be key.
New research finds that the different ways boys and girls use digital technology might explain the discrepancy.
The causes of injuries to children are often linked to the circumstances in which people live.
Charlotte Salomon’s dizzying work of hope and creativity amid destruction and despair, is a moving early example of the contemporary graphic novel
A new US study has found warmer temperatures will lead to more deaths from injury, for example in transport accidents, drownings, assaults and suicides. But what does this mean for Australia?
We found refugees with insecure visas had poorer mental health than refugees with secure visas. But social interaction with the wider community seems to help.
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Salford
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Professor, Orygen, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
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Chief Specialist Scientist in Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
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Professor, Director, Open Door: Improving the Wellbeing of Veterans, Public Safety Personnel and their Families, Flinders University
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago
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Conjoint Professor of Psychiatry, UNSW
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Professor of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, National Centre of Excellence in Suicide Prevention, Griffith University
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Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
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Assistant Professor, McGill Group for Suicide Studies, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Canada Research Chair in Youth Suicide Prevention, McGill University
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Professor and Head of Social Work, University of Tasmania