Almost half of people with depression don’t appear as sad as you’d expect, but are at a particularly high risk of suicide.
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Women in prison with brain injury are at increased risk of substance abuse, poor mental health and suicide. Yet support for these women is scant.
Asylums were once designed to aid mental recovery – perhaps modern prisons should take note.
A diagnosis of mental illness is only one in a number of risk factors for suicide. And for Indigenous Australians, a history of dispossession and disempowerment plays a much bigger role.
A survey done of transgender people right after they read a story on the government’s move to deny transgender identity shows the emotional impact that denying that identity can have.
Ghana’s print media plays in shaping public opinion and disseminating knowledge about mental health disorders.
Throughout the movement’s history, African Americans and whites lived, worked and protested side-by-side. It was one of the few long-term experiments in American interracial communalism.
Emile Durkheim helped to lay the foundations of sociological thought and theory. He spoke of our current condition as being influenced by social structures and institutions.
A 69-year-old man is in jail for encouraging his wife to suicide but some have wondered why he wasn’t charged with a more serious offence.
Evidence shows that outright bans save lives.
Young men in Kenya are more at risk of contemplating suicide if they have friends and family who attempted or have gone through with it.
Many current interventions focus on raising awareness of suicide, or preventing suicide at the point just prior to death. Many of those not assessed as being at “high risk” are left without support.
Torture is such a profound tear in the fabric that makes us human that it can distort even the most fundamental elements of social existence.
Legs On The Wall’s production deals with the important but taboo topic of youth suicide, particularly in the Indigenous community.
From human suffering to political chicanery to environmental degradation, the tide of bad news, blared in headlines every day, seems overwhelming. One poet and classics scholar asks: What can be done?
Australia’s aged care sector is in trouble. Our experts have previously explored the complex aspects of the system, exposing where the problems are, and have been for some time.
There were 6,566 more suicides in the 2008-09 period that were a direct consequence of the rapid decline of equity values.
Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin died by suicide March 8, 2019, at age 23. A psychiatrist who has treated those at risk for suicide shares a screening tool that may help loved ones assess a person’s risk.
Climate change poses a threat to our mental health. Building connected communities is one way to combat a rise in suicide rates as global temperatures increase.
What makes people go online to abuse and harass the vulnerable – or log on to be abused themselves?
Top contributors
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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