Suicide Expert Visiting New Zealand
Professor Goldney, an expert on suicide, tours New Zealand in September
A Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Adelaide in Australia, Professor Goldney is also President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, and a practising private psychiatrist. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Australian and New Zealand and Royal (UK) Colleges of Psychiatrists and a corresponding Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
From 1997 to 1998 he was the Chief Advisor in Psychiatry to the Minister of Health in Australia.
He is a member of the National Advisory Council on Youth Suicide Prevention and since 1974 he has published over 160 papers, the majority on various aspects of suicidal behaviour.
A sample of Professor Goldney's recently published papers include:
How to treat suicidal behaviours
Variation on suicide
rates: The "tipping point"
Suicide rates in the
World
Better recognition and treatment of depression
should reduce suicide and attempted suicide
Is Suicide
Prevention Possible?
Guns and Suicide in Australia
Post-vention in Schools: affective or effective?
Professor Goldney is visiting New Zealand on a World Health Organisation Consultancy and is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Health.
Professor Goldney will be available for interviews at the following times:
WELLINGTON
Monday, 6 September 4.30pm
Tuesday, 7
September 2.30pm
Wednesday, 15 September
2pm
Launch of revised media guidelines, Suicide and the
Media - The reporting and portrayal of suicide in the media.
An invite with further details will be sent out to media
closer to the time.
CHRISTCHURCH
Thursday, 9
September 11am
DUNEDIN
Friday, 10 September
1.30pm
AUCKLAND
Thursday, 16 September
12.30pm