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Suicide Prevention: What You and Your Family Need To Know P2

Season 8 Episode 5 | 26m 47s

The complicated grief of suicide loss, the importance of identifying risk factors and strategies for intervention as well as postvention, when suicide contagion is a concern, and more. Guest: Dr. Christine Yu Moutier, Chief Medical Officer of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and a leader in the field.

Aired: 04/30/23 | Expires: 04/03/26
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