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Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide

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Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide
Abstract:
Suicide is a public health issue. Media and online coverage of suicide should be informed by using best practices. Some suicide deaths may be newsworthy. However, the way media cover suicide can influence behavior negatively by contributing to contagion, or positively by encouraging help-seeking. This website provides free access to research-based recommendations for reporting on suicide.
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media and public relations, mental health, suicide
Author(s):
Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Columbia University Department of Psychiatry