September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. The following experts are available to comment on a variety of issues regarding suicide, depression and prevention among adults and youth.
David Klonsky
UBC Department of Psychology
Email: EDKlonsky@gmail.com
– motivations for suicide
– suicide prevention bridge barriers
– whether suicide attempts are ‘impulsive’
Jehannine C. Austin
UBC Departments of Psychiatry and Medical Genetics
Email: jehannine.austin@ubc.ca
Tel: 604.875.2000 ext. 5943
– genetic counseling in people with family history of suicide or suicide attempts
– genetics and suicide attempts
– potential of blood tests to predict suicide
Elizabeth Saewyc
UBC School of Nursing
Email: elizabeth.saewyc@ubc.ca
Tel: 778.386.1051
– suicide attempts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) adolescents
– risk factors for suicide among youth generally
– link between bullying and suicide, particularly among LGBTQ
– factors that reduce the odds of suicide attempts among youth generally, and among LGBTQ youth and youth in care
– how LGBTQ-inclusive policies and gay straight alliances reduce the odds of suicide attempts among LGBTQ youth as well as heterosexual youth
John Oliffe
UBC School of Nursing, UBC’s Men’s Health Research program
Email: john.oliffe@nursing.ubc.ca
Tel: 604.842.7638
(Out of town September 10 with limited telephone availability)
– male depression, suicide and masculinity
Genevieve Creighton
Social Science Researcher
Developmental Neurosciences & Child Health
Tel: 604.875.3710
Email: genevieve.creighton@cw.bc.ca
– male depression and suicide
– women who have experienced the loss of a male to suicide
