Interventions to Prevent Suicide A Literature Review to Guide Evaluation of California's Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention Initiative

• Main Author: Acosta, Joie D. (auth)
• Other Authors: Ramchand, Rajeev (auth), Jaycox, Lisa H. (auth), Becker, Amariah (auth), Eberhart, Nicole K. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2012
• Subjects: Medicolegal issues; Public health & preventive medicine; Psychology; Health Sciences
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Prevention and early intervention initiatives aim to reduce the incidence of suicide, and the authors evaluate these initiatives by reviewing suicide prevention (SP) literature to learn about SP program effectiveness and the methodologies previously used to evaluate SP programs. Using evidence from...