Publications

Publications Relating to Research

2015 Suicide & Self-Harm Prevention Conference

Hanssens L. "The Impact of Suicide Contagion and Echo Clusters in Remote Indigenous Communities in Northern Territory, Australia". June 2015.
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2014 IASP

Hanssens L. "The Impact of Suicide Contagion and Echo Clusters in Remote Indigenous Communities in Northern Territory, Australia". International Association Suicide Prevention Bereavement Newsletter. June 2014. 2. (3) 1 - 2.
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2011 AIHWJ

Hanssens L. "Suicide (Echo) Clusters – Are They Socially determined, the Result of a Pre-existing Vulnerability in Indigenous Communities in the Northern Territory and How Can We Contain Cluster Suicides?" Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal. January/February 2011. 35. (1) 14 – 19.
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2010 AIHWJ

Hanssens L. "Echo Clusters – Are they a Unique Phenomenon of Indigenous Attempted and Completed Suicide?" Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal. January/February 2010. 34. (1) 3 – 12.
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2009 The Chronicle

Hanssens L. 'Living Hope' Suicide Bereavement Support Training Program. The Chronicle. 2008. 13–14.
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2009 Australian Family Physician

Schultz R. & Hanssens L. "Health Promotion in Australian General Practice". Letter to the Editor.
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2008 PHC RIS

Eckermann S. "Understanding Suicide" Snapshot of Australian Primary Health Care Research. 2008: 12 – 13.
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2008 AIHWJ

Hanssens L. "Clusters of Suicide. The need for a comprehensive postvention response to sorrow in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory". Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal. March/April 2008(a); 32. (2) 25 – 33.
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Hanssens L. "Imitation and Contagion Contributing to Suicide Clustering in Indigenous Communities: Time-Space-Method Cluster Analysis". Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal. May/June 2008 (b), 32 (3) 28 – 35.
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2007 Australasian Psychiatry

Bridge S. Hanssens L & Santhanam R. "Dealing with Suicidal Thoughts in Schools: Information and Education Directed at Secondary Schools. Australasian Psychiatry. 2007 vol. 15 supplement. 58 – 62.
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2007 AIHWJ

Hanssens L & Hanssens P. "Research into the Clustering Effect of Suicide within Indigenous communities, Northern Territory, Australia". Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal May/June 2007; 31(3) 3–11.
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Hanssens L. "The Search to Identify Contagion Operating within Suicide Clusters in Indigenous Communities, Northern Territory, Australia". Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal September/October 2007(a); 31 (5) 27 – 33.
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Hanssens L. "Indigenous Dreaming: How Suicide in the Context of Substance Abuse has Impacted on and Shattered the Dreams and Reality of Indigenous Communities in Northern Territory, Australia". Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal. November/December 2007(b); 31 (6) 5 – 12.
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2007 ORIGIN CDU

Banks R. Suicide Contagion. Origins Magazine Charles Darwin University. Edition 1, 2007: 24-25.
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