References and websites

1. References
The following documents/authorities have been consulted by PressWise trainers in compiling the notes for workshop leaders. For those who wish to check sources, details are supplied of where they can be found. Trainers may wish to compile their own (more current) source material from (country specific) research that is published locally at regular intervals.

Suicidal Behaviour and the Media - Summary Conclusions
Unpublished summary of the findings from a systematic review of research literature, Kathryn Williams & Keith Hawton, Centre for Suicide Research, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, UK, 2001

From American Association of Suicidology

Suicide and Terrorism (2002)
Reporting on Suicide: Recommendations for the Media (2001) by American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, American Association of Suicidology and Annenberg Public Policy Center, USA. (Developed in collaboration with the US Office of the Surgeon General, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; the World Health Organisation, National Swedish Centre for Suicide Research, New Zealand Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy)
Reminders to officials dealing with the media about suicide cases from American Association of Suicidology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

From Befrienders International:

From ChildLine, UK:

Saving Young Lives - Calls to Childline about Suicide (2001) by Brigid McConville
What do young people tell ChildLine about feeling suicidal?
How do ChildLine counsellors help young people who feel suicidal?

From Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Australia:

Suicide and the Media, A Critical Review (2001) by R.W. Blood and J. Pirkis
The Media Monitoring Project: A Baseline Description of How the Australian Media Report and Portray Suicide and Mental Health and Illness (2001) by J. Pirkis, R.W. Blood et al
Media Resource for the Reporting and Portrayal of Suicide

From Poynter Institute

A Thoughtful Look at Suicide by Al Tompkins, Broadcast/Online Group Leader
Dr Bob Steele, Ethics Group Leader

From PressWise:

Covering Suicide Worldwide: Media Responsibilities (2001) by The PressWise Trust, UK, with Befrienders International
Managing grief in the media spotlight - Chris Hook on his experience of coping with media interest when his daughter was abducted and murdered in 1995, in Report & Recommendations of the Child Exploitation & the Media Forum, PressWise, UK, 1997 (available from The MediaWise Trust)
Sometimes I feel I cannot go on anymore: attempted suicide, young people and the media by Di Stubbs (Caller Services Development Coordinator, The Samaritans UK) in Report & Recommendations of the Child Exploitation & the Media Forum, PressWise, UK, 1997 (available from The MediaWise Trust)

From The Samaritans, UK:

From Suicide Prevention Project (SUPRE), World Health Organisation:

Suicide and the Media: the Reporting and Portrayal of Suicide in the Media, A Resource (1999) from Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy, New Zealand

Reporting Guidelines: Reporting of Suicide (2001) from Australian Press Council

Reporting Suicide (2000) an information pack prepared by the National Union of Journalists in Ireland in conjunction with Aware Defeat Depression

Suicide and Deliberate Self-Harm: The Fundamental Facts Briefing No. 1 (1997) by Mental Health Foundation, UK

Introduction to Pictures on a Page - Photo-journalism, Graphics and Picture Editing by Harold Evans (Pimlico, 1997)

Mental Health and the Press (2001) by Liz Macmin, The Media Bureau, UK

Effects of a drug overdose in a television drama on presentations to hospital for self-poisoning: time series and questionnaire study by K Hawton et al., British Medical Journal, 1999, 318; 972-977.

Dr John Connolly, secretary of the Irish Association of Suicidology, addressing a meeting of the Irish Suicide Bereavement Support Group (Solace), Republic of Ireland, January 1997

Lionel Joyce, Chairman, Turning Point, UK quoted in Mental Health and the Press, Liz Macmin, The Media Bureau, UK, 2001.

2. Alphabetical selection of useful websites
This selection of websites is not comprehensive. It gives some indication of the range of sources of statistics, advice and information available on the World Wide Web. These sites were visited in preparing training materials about the coverage of suicide for media professionals in the UK. Other countries will have their own expert sites some of which can be accessed via links on the sites below.