Targeted suicide prevention education for people supporting refugees and asylum seekers with insecure or unstable visas living in the community: Improvements in competence, attitudes and confidence.
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2024
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Procter, N.G.
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International Association for Suicide Prevention: Abstract Book, 2024, pp.88-88
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IASP Minneapolois 2024 (19 Nov 2024 - 22 Nov 2024 : Minneapolois, United States)
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More than 120 million individuals have been forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. We are now witnessing the highest levels of displacement on record. At the same time, international studies report elevated rates of suicidality (ideation, behaviour, and deaths) among asylum seekers and refugees living in host or resettlement countries across Europe, in the United States and Australia. Many more are living in living with temporary and insecure visas in protracted displacement situations. Several countries have implemented restrictive and harsh immigration policies that are likely to compound existing trauma and despair, including suicidal distress. Tailored suicide prevention initiatives developed in close partnership with people of refugee and asylum seeker background are emerging as a an important and urgently needed resource. This presentation will describe the development and impact of a tailored 2-day suicide prevention education program developed in Australia. The program was codesigned with people of refugee and asylum seeker background with lived or living experience of suicidal distress as well as health and social service professionals working with people of asylum seeker and refugee background with insecure visa status.
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Copyright 2024 The author(s).