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Training in Suicide Prevention for Professional and Community Agents

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.12.1702

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.

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