DGS spring meeting
The Spring Meeting by the DGS (Günzburg, Germany: from March 8th to March 10th) will focus on suicide research and will be divided into various modules.
SUPRA brochures
The SUPRA has published a new brochure about addiction prevention („Werkstatt für Suchtprävention – Vorarlberg“).
Further Information: SUPRO
DGPPN Congress
The next Congress by the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN), will be held in Berlin from 28th November to 1st December, 2018. The congress programme will cover all relevant mental illnesses and will put a lot of emphasis on biological and psychotherapeutic topics and topics of social psychiatry. It will highlight also a Suicide topic (Topic 11).
Further information: DGPPN
Upate: forthcoming congresses and conferences
As allready announced, here a short update for forthcoming congresses and conferences in 2018:
- DGS Spring Meeting, Schloss Reisensburg (Günzburg, Germany) from March 8th to March 10th
- 51st Annual AAS Conference, Washington DC, from April 18th to April 21th
- ÖGPP Annual Meeting, Gmunden, from April 25th to April 28th
- Scientific Annual Meetin by the ÖGPH, Vienna, from May 23th to May 24.5
- ESSSB Congress, Ghent (Belgium), from September 5th to September 8th
next WSPD – motto
The new Motto for the next World Suicide Prevention Day will be „Working together to prevent suicide“.
Netflix series „Not Alone“ – documentary to prevent youth suicide
We want to recomment the new Netflix series „Not Alone“. It’s a documentary to prevent youth suicide by Kiki Goshay and Jacqueline Monetta.
Further information: Not alone
51st Annual AAS Conference
The 51st Annual AAS Conference (American Association of Suicidology) will take place on April 18th to 21th, 2018 in Washington DC.
Further information: AAS
Best Practice Paper about self -harm behaviour
jugendschutz.net developed a Best Practice Paper about „self-harm behaviour“ in social media platforms in cooperation with the NASPro, the Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research and the Federal Association „Eating disorders“.
german version:
Best Practice Paper Selbstgefährdung
english version:
ESSSB Congress
The 17th European Symposium on Suicide & Suicidal Behaviour (ESSSB) will be Held in Ghent (Belgium), from September 5th to September 8th, 2018.
Further information: ESSSB
ÖGPH congress
This year’s annual science conference by the ÖGPH (Österr. Gesellschaft für Public Health) take place in Vienna from 23th to 24th May. Abstracts can be submitted until 15th March 2018.
Further information: ÖGPH