Training in Suicide Prevention for Professional and Community Agents
NORMAN L. FARBEROW PH.D.1
1 Codirector, Suicide Prevention Center, 2521 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90006, clinical professor of psychiatry, University of Southern California School of Medicine, and is associated with the Central Research Unit, Veterans Administration Center, Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center has been training mental health professionals, semiprofessionals (primarily graduate students in mental health disciplines), nonprofessional volunteers, and various community groups for about a decade. The author describes the various types of training offered and notes that a primary objective for both public and professionals is to diminish the taboo aspects of suicide.
