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Community-Based Interventions in Suicide Prevention

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Suicide is a painful human reality affecting worldwide individuals of different ages, races, cultural, and religious backgrounds. It has been traditionally attributed to mental illness, but it has also been linked to other adverse social circumstances, not always adequately addressed by psychiatry and other mental and health professions.

To make impact on its prevention at different levels, coordinated multidisciplinary efforts must be community based. Throughout this chapter, the authors go back in history to see how the interpretations and solutions offered have evolved. When proposing solutions, emphasis is placed in the model of interventions provided by the WHO-backed Safe Communities Movement, pioneered and coordinated at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.

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  1. Neuropsychiatry Section, Neurosciences Institute, Universidad El Bosque, Bogota, Colombia

    Jorge Téllez-Vargas

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    Jairo Osorno

  3. Department of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jairo Osorno

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    Maurizio Pompili

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Téllez-Vargas, J., Osorno, J. (2022). Community-Based Interventions in Suicide Prevention. In: Pompili, M. (eds) Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42003-1_59

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