TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1987//
TI  - Helpline: suicide prevention at a suicide site
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Glatt, K. M.
SP  - 299
EP  - 309
VL  - 17
IS  - 4
N2  - In an effort to reduce the number of suicides from the Mid-Hutson Bridge in Poughkeepsie, New York, the Dutchess County Department of Mental Hygiene and the New York State Bridge Authority jointly established a suicide prevention phone on the bridge, which is directly connected to a 24-hour psychiatric emergency service. This program is the first known one in which a dedicated suicide prevention helpline has been installed at a site of known suicides and linked with a mental health service. After 2 years of operation, the phone has been used 30 times; the data suggest that most would-be jumpers are ambivalent enough about dying that they will reach out for help/contact if the opportunity exists, and, as a consequence, can be saved.
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SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -