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Guidelines for the Media 
About Suicide and the Media
This website contains a broad range of information related to suicide, including the media's role in containing the suicide contagion, facts and myths of suicide, and suicide information relevant to target populations.
http://www.wesleymission.org.au/centres/lifeforce/suicide8.asp
Auseinet: The Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health
Auseinet informs, educates and promotes good practice in a range of sectors and the community about mental health promotion, prevention, early intervention and suicide prevention across the lifespan.
http://www.auseinet.com/
Fact or Fiction? Reporting on Suicide and Mental Illness
A 13 page booklet to introduce journalism students to the issues associated with mental illness and suicide in the media and provide recommendations for reporting
http://www.responseability.org/constructionFiles/32102_FactOrFictionGuide.pdf
Mental Health and Illness in the Media: A review of the Literature
This report seeks to identify, evaluate and interpret the available research relating to the portrayal of mental illness in the media
http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/suiprev/resources/index.php
Mental Health and Illness in the media: A review of the literature 2001
There is a common perception that the media's depiction of mental health and illness is overwhelmingly negative and inaccurate. Media portrayal is also viewed as an important element in forming and influencing community attitudes towards mental health issues. A significant amount has been written on this topic in recent years, and this review seeks to identify, evaluate and interpret the available research relating to the portrayal of mental health and illness in the media.
http://www.auseinet.com/resources/other/mhimedia.pdf
Mindframe Website
The Mindframe-media website, based on the print resource ‘Reporting Suicide and Mental Illness’, provides practical advice and information to support the work of media professionals by informing them about sensitive and appropriate reporting of suicide and mental illness.
http://www.mindframe-media.info/
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
This web page provides an overview of suicide contagion as well as preventative and responsible reporting guidelines for journalists.
http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/SMA01-3517/ch9.asp
Preventing Suicide: A Resource for Media Professionals
To outline the impact of the media reporting on suicide, indicate sources of reliable information, suggest how to report on suicide and identify pitfalls to be avoided.
http://www.who.int/mental_health/media/en/426.pdf
Reporting On Suicide: Recommendations for the Media
The media can play a powerful role in educating the public about suicide prevention. Stories about suicide can inform readers and viewers about the likely causes of suicide, its warning signs, trends in suicide rates, and recent treatment advances. They can also highlight opportunities to prevent suicide. Media stories about individual deaths by suicide may be newsworthy and need to be covered, but they also have the potential to do harm. Implementation of recommendations for media coverage of suicide has been shown to decrease suicide rates.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/suicideresearch/mediasurvivors.cfm
Reporting on Suicide: Recommendations to the Media
Provides recommendations to the media on sensitive ways to report suicide; contains information on recommendations, questions to ask, angles to pursue, points on interviewing surviving relatives and friends, concerns, language, special situations, stories to consider covering, references and resources.
http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/07_adolescent_risk/2001_guidelines809.pdf
The Media Monitoring Project: A Baseline Description of how the Australian Media Report and Portray Suicide and Mental Health and Illness
This major Australian project, comprising two studies, set out to address some of the gaps in knowledge about the way that media report and portray suicide and mental health and illness. A number of studies have considered the impact of media reports of suicide and mental health and illness, and suggested that reporting of suicide can lead to imitation, and that reporting of mental health and illness can contribute to negative beliefs, stigma and discrimination. Much less work has looked at the extent and nature of media reporting of suicide and mental health and illness, but it has suggested that the media tend to report suicide in a sensationalist fashion and portray mental illness negatively. Few of these studies have been conducted in Australia.
http://www.auseinet.com/resources/other/pa6568media.pdf
The Media Monitoring Project: A Baseline Description of how the Australian Media Report and Portray Suicide and Mental Health and Illness
To describe the current state of media reporting on suicide and mental illness
http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/suiprev/resources/index.php
   
   
   

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