Call for Entries: Careif-Global Suicide and Suicide Prevention Essay Competition

Call for Entries: Careif-Global Suicide and Suicide Prevention Essay Competition 1st Prize £500 2nd Prize £300 3rd Prize £100 Careif is an international mental health charity with a special focus on protecting and promoting the health and well-being of young people living in culturally diverse societies around the world. Each year, we have held a highly successful essay prize competition to encourage ‘state of the art’ essays on key mental health themes. These are published on our website and in the lay and academic press. The essays aim to bring together a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, integrating the academic research, theoretical, conceptual, and public health perspectives. Suicide is a tragic event with far reaching impact on the lives of those touched by it. Initiatives that seek to understand more fully the causes and opportunities for suicide prevention are ever more important as public health experts report increasing rates of mental ill health in the current economic climate. Suicide is complex with psychological, social, biological, cultural and environmental factors involved. Every year, almost one million people worldwide die from suicide; this roughly corresponds to one death every 40 seconds. (www.who.int) You are invited to submit, in open competition, an essay on Suicide and Suicide Prevention and to explore its socio-religious context, cultural meaning and its association with stigma. The es...
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