Founded in 2002, the Centre (“CSRP”) in the Faculty at HKU has advocated the Public Health Approach in tackling the suicide and its related problems. We adhere to the promotion of community focused suicide prevention measures to further lower suicidal tendencies, all the while, advocating diagnosis and treatment intervention to individuals at risk. In this regards, suicide and its prevention is inherently a multi-disciplinary subject, requiring a diverse array of perspectives and expertise.
An advocate of the Public health Approach, CSRP believes in not only intervention for suicidal individuals but also prevention of the risk factors and enhancing protective factors for the community at large. This cost-effective but high impact approach mobilizes and empowers the community so that the mental well-being in general can be uplifted while making the entire population less susceptible to suicide. Besides, CSRP places a strong emphasis on identifying patterns of suicide and suicidal behaviours in a group of population. CSRP searches for evidence-based measures; particularly those involve improving people’s mental wellbeing against suicide and changing behaviours that put people at suicide risk.
The Aims of CSRP:
| (a) | To generate and advance knowledge in suicide studies through vigorous scientific research |
| (b) | To identify and advocate effective and viable suicide prevention strategies and measures |
| (c) | To bulid evidence-based indigenous working models for suicide ideates, attempters, as well as to survivors through community-researchers collaboration |
| (d) | To engage in knowledge-transfer research to the community via multi-media platform |
| (e) | To enhance knowledge and skills in helping professionals through seminars, workshops and resource production |
Website: http://csrp.hku.hk
Email: csrp@hku.hk
Tel: 2241 5013
Fax: 2549 7161