- Part 1 Suicide in a Religious and Cross-cultural Perspective
- part 2 The Magnitude and Implication of Suicide and Attempted Suicide
- Part 3 Theories of Suicidal Behaviour
- Part 4 Political Determinants of Suicide
- Part 5 Social and Economic Determinants of Suicide
- Part 6 Psychiatric and Somatic Determinants of Suicide
- Part 7 Suicide Risk Assessment
- Part 8 Cost of Suicide and Prevention Strategies
- Part 9 Health Care Strategies
- Part 10 Public Health Strategies
- Part 10A Public Health Strategies: Awareness and Education
- Chapter 66 Education and awareness programmes for adults
- Chapter 67 Suicide awareness and mental health among youth in the community
- Chapter 68 Suicide prevention by education and the moulding of attitudes
- Chapter 69 The role of mass-media in suicide prevention
- Chapter 70 The role of the Internet in suicide prevention
- Chapter 71 Representations of suicide in cinema
- Part 10B Public Health Strategies: Early Detection and Health Promotion
- Part 10C Public Health Strategies: Controlling the Access to Means of Suicide
- Part 11 Survivors of Suicide Loss
- Part 12 Young People and Suicide
- Part 13 Elderly People and Suicide
- Part 14 Networking in Suicide Research and Prevention
- Part 15 Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents
(p. 515) The role of mass-media in suicide prevention
- Chapter:
- (p. 515) The role of mass-media in suicide prevention
- Author(s):
Michael Westerlund
, Sylvia Schaller
, and Armin Schmidtke
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780198570059.003.0069
Although disputed, most researchers in the field of suicide and mass media agree that the studies carried out to date have substantiated the existence, under certain circumstances, of genuine suicidal ‘contagion’ from suicide reports in the media. The fact that many studies have demonstrated an association between media reporting of suicide and actual suicidal behaviour has also prompted the issue of various types of recommendations on how the media should report on the subject of suicide to avoid imitative behaviour. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss and identify the problems associated with research on suicide and the media, with a number of seminal articles published over the years serving as examples.
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- Part 1 Suicide in a Religious and Cross-cultural Perspective
- part 2 The Magnitude and Implication of Suicide and Attempted Suicide
- Part 3 Theories of Suicidal Behaviour
- Part 4 Political Determinants of Suicide
- Part 5 Social and Economic Determinants of Suicide
- Part 6 Psychiatric and Somatic Determinants of Suicide
- Part 7 Suicide Risk Assessment
- Part 8 Cost of Suicide and Prevention Strategies
- Part 9 Health Care Strategies
- Part 10 Public Health Strategies
- Part 10A Public Health Strategies: Awareness and Education
- Chapter 66 Education and awareness programmes for adults
- Chapter 67 Suicide awareness and mental health among youth in the community
- Chapter 68 Suicide prevention by education and the moulding of attitudes
- Chapter 69 The role of mass-media in suicide prevention
- Chapter 70 The role of the Internet in suicide prevention
- Chapter 71 Representations of suicide in cinema
- Part 10B Public Health Strategies: Early Detection and Health Promotion
- Part 10C Public Health Strategies: Controlling the Access to Means of Suicide
- Part 11 Survivors of Suicide Loss
- Part 12 Young People and Suicide
- Part 13 Elderly People and Suicide
- Part 14 Networking in Suicide Research and Prevention
- Part 15 Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents