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• Overview
  
  
• Opening Address by President Mary McAleese
  
  
• International Prevention Programmes
  Dr Ella Arensman – “Prevention of Repeated Suicidal Behaviour: Efficacy of Existing Treatment Programmes"
  J. John Mann, MD – “National Strategies for Suicide Prevention”
  Questions & Answers
  
  
• Suicidal Thinking
  Prof Paul Soloff MD “What Lies Beneath”
  Dr Tony Bates “Conversations that Keep Us Alive”
  
  
• Suicide & Vulnerable Groups
  John Lonergan "Suicide in Prisons"
  Prof Eadbhard O'Callaghan "D.E.T.E.C.T. "
  Sean McCarthy "Youth Take Two: Working with Marginalised Young People"
  
  
• Adolescent Dimension
  Prof Carol Fitzpatrick "Tackling Tough Times"
  Dr Helen Keeley "Deliberate Self-Harm in Teenagers"
  Joe Connolly "Alcohol in Teenage Ireland"
  Questions & Answers
  
  
• Advocacy & The Aftermath
  Theresa Millea - "My Story"
  Michael Egan "Suicide Survivors: Breaking the Bad News"
  Prof Kevin Malone - "The 3Ts Perspective"
  
  
• Suicidal Ireland: A Future?
  Derek Chambers
  Prof Kevin Malone
  Panel Discussion

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• Opening address by President of Ireland, Mary McAleese - Click here to read President MacAleese's Opening Address
  
  
• Conference combining Science, Arts and Humanities to span suicide across the life-cycle including at-risk groups such as young men, mental illness, high risk occupational groups and those bereaved by suicide.
  
  
• Bringing together voluntary charities, statutory agencies, researchers, advocates and youth groups.
  
  
• The Conference was open to all interested individuals, young people, schools, parents, health professionals and voluntary groups.

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