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Miller, K.M., Cugley, J.A. & Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention (2004) Using the Internet for Suicide Prevention: A Guide Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention, Perth

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Hayward L., Zubrick SR., & Silburn, SR. (1988).
Suicide and suicide attempts in Australia and Western Australia: A focus on youth.
Perth, WA: Health Department of Western Australia.

Hillman, SD., Green, A., & Silburn, SR. (2000).
A study of families bereaved by suicide.
Perth, WA: WA Youth Suicide Advisory Committee.

Hillman SD., Silburn SR., Zubrick SR., & Nguyen H. (2000). Suicide in Western Australia Perth, WA: Youth Suicide 1986 to 1997.
Advisory Committee, TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and the Centre for Child Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Australia.

Hillman, SD., Silburn, SR., Green, A., & Zubrick, SR. (2000).
Youth suicide in Western Australia involving cannabis and other drugs.
Perth, WA: WA Drug Abuse Strategy Office.
 illicit_drugs_suicide.pdf

Serafinao, S., Somerford, P., & Codde, J. (2000).
Hospitalisation as a consequence of deliberate self-harm in Western Australia, 1981-1998.
Perth, WA: Health Department of Western Australia.
http://www.health.wa.gov.au/publications/documents/Self_harm.pdf

Silburn, SR., Zubrick, SR., Hayward, L. & Reidpath, D. (1991).
Attempted Suicide Among Perth Youth:
A report to the Hon. Keith Wilson, Minister for Health, on the initial findings of a prospective study of youth admitted to Perth Hospitals following deliberate self-harm. Perth, WA: Health Department of Western Australia.

Silburn, SR., Zubrick, SR. (1992).
Completed suicide in Western Australian youth: A four-year population study of cases aged 24 years or less.
Perth, WA: Institute for Child Health Research.

Zubrick SR, Lawrence DM, Silburn SR, Blair, E, Milroy H, Wilkes, E, Eades S, D'Antoine H, Read A, Ishiguchi P, Doyle S. (2004)
The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey . The Health of Aboriginal Children and Young People.
Perth: Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.

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Scientific Publications in Referred Journals

Garton, AF., Zubrick, SR., & Silburn, SR. (1994).
Mental health indicators in young people. Youth Studies Australia, Winter, 37-39.
http://www.acys.utas.edu.au/ysa/index.html

Garton, AF., Zubrick, SR., & Silburn, SR. (1995).
The Western Australian child health survey: A pilot study.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 29, 48-57.

Hagquist C., Silburn SR., Zubrick SR., Lindberg G., & Ringback-Weitoft, G. (2000).
Suicide and mental health problems among Swedish youth in the wake of the 1990s recession.
International Journal of Social Welfare, 9, 211-219.
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1369-6866

Hayward, LD., Zubrick, SR., & Silburn, SR. (1992).
Blood alcohol levels in suicide cases.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 46, 256-260.
http://jech.bmjjournals.com/

Hillman, SD., Silburn, SR., Green, A., & Zubrick, SR. (in preparation).
Youth suicide in Western Australia involving cannabis and other drugs.
Tobe submitted to Acta Psychiatria Scandinavia.

Hillman, SD., Green, A., & Silburn, SR. (in preparation).
The needs of suicide survivors.
To be submitted to The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health.

Kosky, R., Silburn, SR., & Zubrick, SR. (1986).
Depression and suicidal ideation in children.
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 174(9), 523-528.
http://www.lww.com/product/?0022-3018

Kosky, R., Silburn, SR., &Zubrick, SR. (1990).
Are children and adolescents who have suicidal thoughts different from those who attempt suicide?
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 178, 38-43.
http://www.lww.com/product/?0022-3018

Kosky, R., Silburn, SR., & Zubrick, SR. (1986).
Symptomatic depression and suicidal ideation: A Comparative Study with 628 Children.
Journal of Nervous & Mental Diseases, 174(9), 523-528.
http://www.lww.com/product/?0022-3018

Kosky, R., McAlpine, I., Silburn, SR., & Richmond, J. (1985).
A survey of child psychiatry outpatients: Clinical and demographic characteristics.
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 19, 158-166.
http://www.ranzcp.org/

Oddy, W. H., Kendall, G. E., Blair, E., deKlerk, N. H., Stanley, F. J., Landau, L. I., Silburn, S. R., & Zubrick, S. R. (2003).
Breastfeeding and cognitive development in childhood: A prospective birth cohort study.
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 17, pp. 81-90.
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0269-5022

Sawyer, M. G., Arney, F. M., Baghurst, P. A., Clarke, J. J., Graetz, B. W., Kosky, R. J., Nurcombe, B., Patton, G. C., Prior, M. R., Raphael, B., Rey, J. M., Whaites, L. C., & Zubrick, S. R. (2001).
The mental health of young people in Australia: key findings from the child and adolescent component of the national survey of mental health and well-being.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 35, pp. 806-814.
http://www.ranzcp.org/

Silburn, SR. (1999).
Frameworks for conceptualising youth suicide prevention.
Youth Suicide Prevention Bulletin, 2, 21-24. National Youth SuicidePrevention Strategy, Australian Institute of Family Studies.
http://www.aifs.gov.au/ysp/pubsmenu.html#bulletins

Stephens, M., Zubrick, SR., & Silburn, SR. (1995).
Preventing Suicide.
British Medical Journal, 310, 1072-73.
www.bmj.com

Verhulst, F. C., Achenbach, T. M., van der Ende, J., Erol, N., Lambert, M. C., Leung, P. W. L., Silva, M., Zilber, N., & Zubrick, S. R. (in press).
Comparisons of reported problems by youth
American Journal of Psychiatry.
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/

Zubrick, SR., Kosky, R., & Silburn, SR. (1987).
Is suicidal ideation associated with puberty?
Royal Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 21, 54-58.
http://www.ranzcp.org/

Zubrick, SR., Silburn, SR., Burton, P. & Blair, E. (2000).
Mental health disorders in children and adolescents: Scope, cause and prevention.
Royal Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 34, 570-578.
http://www.ranzcp.org/

Zubrick, S. R., Northey, K., Silburn, S. R., Lawrence, D., Williams, A. A., Blair, E., Robertson, D., & Sanders, M. R. (under review).
Prevention of child behaviour problems vs universal implementation of a group behavioural family intervention.
Journal of Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/jcpp

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Book Chapters

Sanson, A., Nicholson, J., Ungerer, J., Zubrick, S., Wilson, K., Ainley, J., Berthelsen, D., Bittman, M., Broom, D., Harrison, L., Rodgers, B., Sawyer, M., Silburn, S., Strazdins, L., Vimpani, G., & Wake, M. (2002),
Introducing the Longitudinal Study of Children
Australian Institute of Family Studies - Commonwealth of Australia: Melbourne.

Silburn, S. (1991). Suicide. In VP. Waddell & NA. Lee (Eds.).
Our State of Health: An Overview of the Health of the Western Australian Population.
Perth, WA: Health Department of Western Australia.

Silburn, SR. & Zubrick, SR. (1995).
Attempted suicide among Perth Youth. In D. Kenny & RFS. Jobes (Eds). Australia's Adolescents: A Health Psychology Perspective, (pp. 96-102).
Armidale: University of New England Press.

Silburn, SR. & Zubrick, SR. (1995).
Bringing the Community Together: A Public Health Framework for Preventing Youth Suicide.
In Public Health Significance of Suicide Prevention Strategies, (pp. 47-58). Canberra: Public Health Association of Australia.

Silburn, SR. & Zubrick, SR. (1995).
Suicide Prevention.
In P. Cotton & H. Jackson (Eds.). Early Intervention and Preventative Mental Health Applications of Clinical Psychology.
Melbourne: Australian Psychological Society.

Silburn, SR. & Zubrick, SR., & Hayward, L. (1992).
Completed Suicide in Western Australian Youth: A Study of 96 Cases Aged 15-24 Years.
In S. McKillop (Ed.). Preventing Youth Suicide (pp. 63-72).
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.

Silburn, S. R. (2002).
Translating Research into Policy and Practice
in Prior, M. (Ed.), Investing in Our Children. Developing a Research Agenda
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia: Canberra, pp. 130-142.

Vickers, B., Zubrick, S. R., & Silburn, S. (2002)
The Clarkson school community profiling project
In Rowling, L., Martin, G. & Walker, L. (Eds.), Mental Health Promotion Concepts and Practice: Young People, McGraw Hill Australia: Sydney, pp. 142-158.

Zubrick, SR., Silburn, SR., Garton, A., Burton, P., Dalby, R., Carlton, J., Shepherd, C., & Lawrence, D. (1995).
Adolescent suicidal behaviour.
In The Western Australian Child Health Survey: Developing Health and Well-being in the Nineties (pp. 44-46).
Perth, WA: Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Institute for Child Health Research.

Zubrick SR, Silburn SR & Prior M (In Press).
Resources and Contexts for Child Rearing: Implications for the Development of Children and Society.
Canberra: Academy of Social Sciences.

Zubrick, S. R. (2002)
Challenges of Measurement in Child and Family Focused Research
In Prior, M. (Ed.), Investing in Our Children. Developing a Research Agenda
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia: Canberra, pp. 119-129.

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Other Publications

Chadwick, R., & Goldflam, A. (1999).
Final report of the education and training for professionals in Western Australia project.
A national project funded under the National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy.

Clark, S.J., Hilman, S.D. & Youth Suicide Advisory Committee. (2001).
Information and Support Pack: for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death
Perth, Australia: WA Youth Suicide Advisory Committee.
 bereavement.pdf

Education Department of WA & Health Department of WA. (1998).
Youth suicide prevention: Gatekeeper training manual.
Perth, WA: YSAC.

Gostelow, C. (1993).
Strategies used by education systems and schools in the USA and Canada to cope with and prevent major traumas such as sudden death and suicide of students or staff.
Churchill Fellowship Report.

Hamilton, T., & Cook, H. (2000).
The Management of Deliberate Self Harm in Young People. Guidelines for Hospital Departments of Emergency Medicine & Psychiatry. Australia:
The Royal Australian& New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.
http://www.acem.org.au/open/documents/youthsuicide.pdf

Harries, M., & Murphy, P. (1996).
A Cross-sectoral and cross disciplinary approach to reducing self-harm amongst young people in Western Australia.
Report prepared following the second triennial planning meeting of the Youth Suicide Advisory Committee.
Perth, WA: Health Department of WA.

Hayward, L. (1989).
Drug use, drug abuse and suicide.
Perth, WA: Health Department of WA.

Health Department of Western Australia & YouthLink. (1994).
Making a Difference. Youth suicide prevention manual.
Perth, WA.

Jones J, Silburn SR, Cugley J, Clements D, Brok A, Williams B, Dudley M, Parham J, Bok L (In press).
CommunityLIFE "Good Practice" Guidelines: A Resource for Communities Developing Their Suicide Prevention Initiatives. In: LIFE National Framework for Suicide Prevention. Second ed.
Canberra: Department of Health and Aging.

Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention (2004).
Suicide Prevention: Gatekeeper Training Manual (2nd ed).
Perth: Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention & Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. Ministry of Education Western Australia & Health Department of Western Austrlia. (1993).
Youth Suicide Prevention: A resource package for student services personnel (Rev.Ed)
Perth: The Ministry

Office of Aboriginal Health on behalf of the Youth Suicide Advisory Committee. (2000).
Working together to stop Aboriginal suicide and self-harm in Western Australia.
Perth, WA: Health Department of Western Australia.

Robson, A., Silburn, S., and members of the WA Aboriginal Steering Committee (2002).
Building Healthy Lives: Partnerships to promote Aboriginal child health and wellbeing and community resilience
Auseinetter, 15, pp. 4-6.
http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/resources/auseinet/index.php

Watts, P. & Silburn, S.R. (1993).
Risk behaviours among students in a priority needs Perth High School.
Perth, WA: Report to the WA Taskforce of the Family.

Youth Suicide Advisory Committee. (1998).
Across Government policy and programs for preventing suicide and suicidal behaviour among Aboriginal youth in Western Australia.
Perth, WA: Health Department of WA.

Youth Suicide Advisory Committee, & Thompson, I. (1993).
Reducing suicide and self-harm among young people in Western Australia.
Report and recommendations addressed to the Hon. Peter Foss, Minister for Health, Exploring policy options, strategic and operational plans for the triennium 1993-1995.
Perth, WA: Health Department of WA.

Zubrick, SR., Williams, AA., Silburn, SR,. & Vimpani, G. (2000).
Indicators of Social Family Functioning.
Canberra: Department of Family and Community Services.
http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/b919d06b2c7d99e3ca256807001393b2

/02682ad71599c571ca25695900139c53/$FILE/Social%26Family.pdf

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Presentations

Casey, D., Cugley, JAM., & Harris, M. (2001).
Supporting both the person at risk and the worker: Gatekeeper training as a vehicle for promoting inter and intra agency consultation and collaboration.
Paper presented at the Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA) Conference. Sydney.

Cook, H., Silburn, SR., & Zubrick, SR. (1991).
A Profile of Youth Suicidal Behaviour in W.A.
Paper presented at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Faculty of ChildPsychiatry, Perth.

Cugley, J.A.M. (1997).
The youth suicide prevention schools' strategy in Western Australia.
Paper presented at the XIX Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Adelaide.

Cugley, J.A.M., & Halperin, S. (1998).
Education and Training Project for Youth Suicide Prevention in Western Australia.
Paper presented at the Third National Conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health,Sydney NSW.

Cugley, J.A.M., Hillman, S.D., Silburn, SR., Robson, A., & Cook, H. (2001).
Where we've been, how we got there and where we're going: The YSAC experience.
Poster presented at the Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA) Conference. Sydney.

English, B., Cugley, J., Williams, B. & Kaleveld, L.
Changing Agendas in Evaluation Planning.
Paper presented at the Australasian Evaluation Society International Conference September 2002.

Hamilton, T., Silburn, S.R., & Zubrick, S.R. (1994).
Facilitating management of suicidal patients between hospitals and the community: A perspective from the Emergency Department.
Invited keynote address, Public Health Significance of Suicide Prevention Strategies Conference, Canberra.

Hillman, S.D. (1999).
The Coroner's database on suicide in Western Australia.
Poster presented at the XX Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Athens, Greece.

Hillman, S.D. (2000).
Suicide in Western Australia.
Invited presentation at the Samaritan Befrienders (WA) Annual General Meeting, Perth.

Hillman, S.D. & Pratt, A. (1999).
Mental health and youth suicide prevention: From impotent to empowering practice in the new millennium.
Paper presented at the 'Sense of Community: Method, Theory and Practice Conference, Perth.

Hillman, S.D., Green, A., & Silburn, S.R. (2000).
A study of families bereaved by suicide.
Paper presented at the Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA) Conference, Melbourne.

Hillman, S.D., Silburn, S.R., Green, A., & Zubrick, S.R. (2001).
Youth suicide in Western Australia involving alcohol and illicit drugs.
Poster presented at the Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA) Conference, Sydney.

Hudman, P., Silburn, S.R., & Zubrick, S.R. (1991).
Preventing Youth Suicide: A High Risk Intervention Study.
Paper presented at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Faculty of Child Psychiatry, Perth.

MacKenzie, V. (1997).
Some issues in the implementation of system-wide youth suicide prevention program: A case study.
Paper presented at the XIX Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Adelaide.

Miller, K (2004).
Using the Internet for Suicide Prevention.
Paper presented at the Internet, Media and Mental Health Conference, Brisbane, April.

Miller, K (2004).
The Potential Role of the Internet in Suicide Prevention.
Paper presented at the School Psychologist Association of Western Australia Conference, Perth.

Miller, K, Cugley, J. & Barker, T.
ASPiRE - Promoting Suicide Prevention Understanding and Resource Access.
Poster presented at the LEAP Conference Fremantle 3 April 2003.
http://129.96.218.253:81/mcsp/libquery2.htm

Northey, K., Silburn, S. R., Perriam, C. & Bruss, I.,
Fremantle Hospital Deliberate Self-Harm Project 2000/01.
Paper presented at the ICHR Away Days, 5 December 2002.

Northey, K., Bruss, I., Perriam, C. & Silburn, S. R. (2003)
An Examination of the recent trends in deliberate self-harm presentations to the Fremantle Hospital and Health Service.
A report from the Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention to the Office of Mental Health, Health Department of Western Australia.

Robson, A., Silburn, S.R., Hillman, S.. & Vicary, D. (2001).
Working together to stop Aboriginal suicide and self-harm in WA.
Paper presented at the Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA) Conference, Sydney.

Silburn, S.R. (2002)
Youth Suicide and Self Harm, Interview with the ABC National Radio, Health Report, Australia.

Silburn, S.R. (1997).
Preventing Youth Suicide: Lessons from the last decade.
Paper presented at APS Psychology Week Public Lecture.

Silburn, S.R. (1998).
Growing up in the 1990s - Learning for Life.
Invited paper for the St Catherine's College Alumni Seminar, Perth.

Silburn, S.R., Hillman, S.D., Green, A., & Zubrick, S.R. (2001).
Drugs, alcohol and suicide: Options for reducing the incidence of suicide attributable to substance misuse.
Paper presented at the Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA) Conference. Sydney, Australia.

Silburn, S.R., & Zubrick, S.R. (1988).
Development of Symptomatic Depression and Suicidal Behaviour in Children and Adolescents.
Paper presented at the Fifth Australian Developmental Conference, Sydney.

Silburn, S.R., & Zubrick, S.R. (1989).
Suicidal Behaviour in Children and Adolescents.
Paper presented at the Sixth Australian Developmental Conference, Perth.

Silburn, S.R., & Zubrick, S.R. (1990).
Suicide and suicidal behaviour: Changing patterns of mortality and morbidity.
Paper presented at the Australian Institute of Criminology Conference on Youth Suicide, Adelaide.

Silburn, S.R., & Zubrick, S.R. (1990).
Youth suicide and suicidal behaviour in West Australian youth aged 14 - 24.
Paper presented at the Sixth Australian Developmental Conference, Perth.

Silburn, S.R., & Zubrick, S.R. (1991).
Youth Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour Among Western Australian Youth.
Paper presented at the 6th Behavioural Medicine Conference, Sydney.

Silburn, S.R. and Zubrick, S.R. (1991).
Attempted Suicide Among Perth Youth - Initial findings of a prospective survey of 182 youth admitted to Perth hospitals following deliberate self-harm.
Paper presented at the Behavioural Medicine Conference - Adolescence and Health, Sydney.

Silburn, S.R., & Zubrick, S.R. (1994).
Bringing the Community Together: A Public Health Framework for Preventing Youth Suicide.
Invited keynote address at the Public Health Association National Conference on Suicide Prevention, Canberra.

Silburn S.R., & Zubrick S.R. (1995).
Intersectoral approaches to Youth Suicide Prevention in Western Australia.
Invited paper presented at the "Here for Life" National Suicide Prevention Program Workshop, Canberra.

Silburn, S.R., & Zubrick, S.R. (1997).
The WA Child Health Survey - Issues for children's rights to mental health.
Invited paper to the 29th Annual Conference of the Public Health Association of Australia, Melbourne.

Silburn, S.R., Zubrick, S.R. & Acres, J. (1997).
Evaluation of an intervention to facilitate better hospital and community management of teenage deliberate self-harm admissions in Western Australia.
Invited paper to XIX Congress of the International Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Adelaide.

Silburn, S.R., Zubrick, S.R., & Garton, A. (1993).
The Western Australian Child Health Survey.
Paper presented at the 5th New South Wales Annual Conference on Child and Family Health, Sydney.
http://www.aifs.org.au/institute/afrcpapers/silburn.html

Silburn, S.R., Zubrick, S.R., & Hayward, L. (1989).
Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour among Western Australian Youth: Changing Patterns of Mortality and Morbidity.
Paper presented at the Australian Institute of Criminology National Conference on Youth Suicide Prevention. Adelaide.

Silburn, S. R.
New directions in Australian Suicide Prevention
Invited keynote address to the 1st Asia-Pacific Injury Prevention Conference & 6th National Conference on Injury Prevention and Control, Fremantle, Western Australia, 16-18 March 2003.

Silburn, S. R. (2002)
Education as an Equalizer?
invited paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia "Creating a Better Future for Australia's Children", Australian National University: Canberra, 11 November 2002.

Silburn, S. R.
Creating Resilience in Community: A focus on the role of schools in developing resilience in students to enhance their mental health, well-being and learning
invited keynote address presented at the National Conference of the Council of Independent Schools Association Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia, 3-5 October 2002.

Silburn, S. R., Robson, A. & WA Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Steering Committee
Recommendations for across-government and inter-sectoral action to reduce the 'up stream' causes of suicide and other psycho-social problems affecting Aboriginal communities
paper delivered by Cox, A. H., Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia, 18 September 2003, & by Cugley, J. A. M., Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth, 1 August 2002.

Silburn, S. R. (2002)
Translating Research into Policy and Practice
Invited paper presented to the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia workshop "Investing in our Children", University of Melbourne , 30-31 May 2002.

Williams, B., Penhale, L., & Kelly, H. (1996).
Great Southern Suicide Prevention Project: Report of the first phase of data collection in Regional and District Hospital Nursing Posts.
Paper presented at the National Rural Health Conference, Sydney.

Zubrick, S.R. (1992).
The public health contribution to adolescent resilience.
Paper presented at the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund, 5th International Symposium on Adolescent Health Behaviour: IdentifyingVulnerability and Resilience, Canberra.

Zubrick, S.R. (1998).
Reducing the cost and burden of depression across the lifespan.
Paper presented at the National Health Advisory Committee Forum on National Priorities in Health Outcomes Conference, Canberra.

Zubrick, S.R., & Silburn, S.R. (1994).
Intersectoral responses to youth suicide: The money or the box.
Keynote address presented at the National Conference on the Public Health Significance of Suicide Prevention Strategies, Public Health Association of Australia, Canberra.

Zubrick, S. R.
Forecasting the Mental Health of Australian Children: Advances in Epidemiology and Prevention Science
Keynote address at the Third International Conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Brisbane, 15 June 2002.