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Suicide Contagen
Pages 8-9

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... She described characteristics of media portrayals of suicide, and characteristics of individual adolescents that increase susceptibility to suicide contagion. She discussed approaches to addressing contagion at the institutional level, including the description of specific guidelines for media coverage, as well as the barriers and challenges to successfully reducing contagion.
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... Anecdotal data reveal numerous instances of misleading and/or incomplete information about risk factors, implicating trivial triggers, with no or minimal coverage of antecedent mental disorders, and rare or absent listing of local services.
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