World Suicide Prevention Day
Written by Steven Schwartz on September 10th, 2008
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, an initiative of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP), and co-sponsored by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Its theme is “Think Globally. Plan Nationally. Act Locally”, a phrase well known to environmental activists and a concept of great value in suicide prevention.
In an article in The Sydney Morning […]
A helping hand
Written by Steven Schwartz on February 21st, 2008
Writing in the Australian Higher Education supplement this week, I described how mental illness has become a taboo topic. As I think this is an important issue, I’d like to repeat for you here some of what I said.
In my 11 years as a vice-chancellor I have attended three memorial services for students who took […]