Given the number of high-profile suicides that’ve been reported lately (Alexander McQueen, Andrew Koenig, and now Michael Blosil, Marie Osmond’s 18-year-old son), I thought today would be a good day to share Reporting on Suicide: Recommendations for the Media with you.
I didn’t realize such recommendations existed until Joye Anestis (one-half of the blogging clinical psychology scholar duo I love so much over at Psychotherapy Brown Bag) brought them to my attention after I shared my own thoughts on Carole Cadwalladr’s recent article in The Observer, “It’s Despair, Not Grief, That Can Lead to Suicide.”
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