This workshop aims to discuss the link between domestic and family violence (DFV) and suicide. Suicidal ideation is common in people experiencing or using DFV. There is a need to have effective risk assessment safety planning strategies and support pathways for both suicide and DFV.
Session resources
- Presentation slides
- Coroners Court of Victoria report – Experience of family violence among people who suicided, Victoria 2009-2016
- Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement Review
- Missing figures: The hidden role of domestic and family violence in youth suicide
- Police-reported family violence victimisation or perpetration and mental health-related emergency department presentations: an Australian data-linkage study
- Supporting someone after a suicide attempt
- Shame-sensitive practice when engaging adult users of DPV
- BEST-EARS approach towards engaging adult users of violence
- Family violence and women’s deaths by suicide: a Victorian study