Conversations on National Suicide Prevention Strategies

Wednesday 16 June 2021

This video explores the various ways in which national suicide prevention strategies have been developed around the world. Exploratory interviews with seven key experts from six very different countries were conducted: Bhutan, Brazil, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, and Québec (Canada). See also the supplementary document which contains additional information on national suicide prevention strategies.

Best Practices in Interventions with Frequent Callers to Helplines

Monday 16 November 2020

Speakers: Brian Mishara, PhD, Director of CRISE and Professor at the Psychology Department of Université du Québec à Montréal, & Louis-Philippe Côté, PhD (c) at the Psychology Department of Université du Québec à Montréal and member of CRISE. Overview of the webinar Telephone helplines around the world have a small proportion of frequent callers who […]

Questioning the Validity of Adolescent Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): a Prospective Study of 286 Previously Suicidal Adolescents

Monday 16 November 2020

Speaker: Dr. Brian Greenfield, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Paediatrics at McGill University Faculty of medicine, Director of the Montreal Children’s Hospital Mental Health Emergency Team, and Researcher at CRISE Overview of the webinar Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) has been characterized in the adult population, and the correlates, predictors and stability of the adolescent […]

Researching Suicide Prevention in Persons with an Intellectual Disability or Autism Spectrum Disorder: Lessons Learned from Current Research

Monday 16 November 2020

Speaker: Cécile Bardon, PhD, Associate Director of CRISE and Professor at the Psychology Department of Université du Québec à Montréal Overview of the webinar Suicidal Behaviour is frequent in individuals with an intellectual disability (ID) or an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but remain poorly studied and understood. Although adequate data is still scarce, we can […]

Postvention Program: Being Prepared to Act in the Event of a Suicide (Séguin, Roy & Boilar, 2020)

Monday 16 November 2020

Speaker: Françoise Roy, Association québécoise de prévention du suicide Overview of the webinar The postvention program is designed for Québec’s institutions and organizations that offer postvention services or are called upon to intervene in the event of a suicide. It is also suitable for educational institutions and their administration, workplaces, and living spaces, community that […]

Study of Suicide Death in Nunavik Between 2014 and 2018

Monday 16 November 2020

Speakers: Monique Séguin, PhD, Université du Québec en Outaouais, McGill Group on Suicide Studies & Québec Network on Suicide Research, Depression and other Comorbid Disorders and William Affleck, PhD, Université du Québec en Outaouais Overview of the webinar Objective: The main objective of this study was to trace the life course of those who died […]

La postvention: comment accompagner les familles endeuillées par le suicide d’un adolescent

Tuesday 23 June 2020

Speaker: Christine Genest, PhD, Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Université de Montréal Abstract (French): Lorsque le suicide d’un.e adolescent.e survient, comme il s’agit d’une mort violente, inattendue, auto-infligée et qu’elle ne s’inscrit pas dans l’ordre normal de la vie, la famille est confrontée à une situation de crise qui nécessite, de sa part, une mobilisation d’énergie. […]

Sentinelles en prévention du suicide: qu’est-ce qui influence leur capacité d’agir?

Tuesday 23 June 2020

Conférencière: Marie-Claude Roberge, INSPQ Marie-Claude Roberge est sociologue de la santé et cumule plus de 25 ans d’expérience dans le domaine de la promotion de la santé. Elle est conseillère scientifique à l’Institut national de santé publique du Québec, d’abord impliquée dans la conception et le déploiement de l’approche globale de la santé en contexte […]