Suicide prevention guidelines

Preventing Suicide: a resource series

Since 1997, NASP has been linked to the World Health Organization as a WHO Collaborating centre. This means that NASP assists the central WHO office in Geneva and Copenhagen with advice on initiating preventive measures. Since 2000, NASP, together with the WHO Collaborating Center in Würzburg, has been commissioned by WHO's European office in Copenhagen to coordinate and monitor the European suicide prevention work.

"Preventing Suicide: a resource series" has been developed as part of the work on Suicide Prevention (SUPRE), the WHO's worldwide initiative for suicide prevention. 

Police, firefighters and other first line responders

Preventing Suicide: a resource for police, firefighters and other first line responders (2009)

General physicians

Preventing suicide: a resource for general physicians (2000)

Media professionals

Preventing suicide: a resource for media professionals (update 2023)

Schools

Preventing suicide: a resource for teachers and other school staff (2000)

Primary health care workers

Preventing suicide: a resource for primary health care workers (2000)

Jails and prisons

Preventing suicide in jails and prisons (2007)

Survivor groups

Preventing suicide: how to start a survivors group (2008)

Preventing suicide: a resource for counsellors (2006)

Workplaces

Preventing suicide: a resource at work (2006)

Communities

Preventing suicide: A community engagement toolkit (2018)

Available translations: French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Bengali, Estonian, Flemish, German, Italian, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish and Turkish via the WHO website.