Focusing on people at 'high risk' of suicide has failed as a suicide prevention strategy
- Written by Helen Stallman, Hospital Research Foundation Fellow, University of South Australia
A number of complex factors leads to someone reaching a point where they can no longer cope. We can't let them get there in the first place.Greg Rakozy/Unsplash
Many current suicide prevention interventions focus on raising awareness of suicide or on preventing it only at the point just prior to it occurring. But despite decades of government...
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