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| Published: December 25, 2014
A Study of Befriending and Its Use on Suicide Prevention in India
The Author is a Masters in Psychology from EIILM UNIVERSITY,8th Mile, Budang, Malabassey, West Sikkim- 737121, India
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DIP: 18.01.028/20140201
DOI: 10.25215/0201.028
ABSTRACT
The Goal of this study was to understand the concept of Befriending and its effects on Suicide Prevention in India. In view of the above purpose we studied the model of Befriending across the world and in India. The data was collected from 3 NGOs based out of Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Chennai. According to the data in the year 2006, Suicide rates had increased marginally up-to 1,18,11,12. It is observed that there is an increase in Suicide rate more among men than women.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2014 A Roy
Received: July 12, 2014; Revision Received: August 16, 2014; Accepted: December 25, 2014
Amitabh Roy @ roy.amitabh3@gmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.028/20140201
10.25215/0201.028
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Published in Volume 02, Issue 1, October-December, 2014