CVV Program: suicide prevention in the context of hotlines and volunteering

Authors

  • Carolina Neumann de Barros Falcão Dockhorn PUCRS
  • Blanca Susana Guevara Werlang PUCRS

Abstract

Suicidal behavior has been increasing in numbers becoming a public health issue. Due to this reality it is of extreme importance that preventive measures with the purpose of reducing outrages numbers of suicide attempts and consummated suicides. Within the prevention programs there is the resource of hotlines on which has its presence in Brazil by the CVV agencies executors of CVV Suicide Prevention Program and members of the “Centro de Valorização da Vida”. With volunteer workers, CVV offers intervention in crisis to people who call looking for emotional support. The purpose of this article is to historically contextualize this type of service, enhancing the action of the volunteers as a fundamental part of civil society, in effective care of people in suffering and in the effort to avoid fatal ending.

Key words – Suicide. Prevention. User Embracement.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2009-01-28

How to Cite

Dockhorn, C. N. de B. F., & Werlang, B. S. G. (2009). CVV Program: suicide prevention in the context of hotlines and volunteering. Textos & Contextos (Porto Alegre), 7(2), 183–198. Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/fass/article/view/4817

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2008)

Section

The guarantee of the right of health in mental health attention

License

Copyright

The submission of originals to Textos & Contextos (Porto Alegre) implies the transfer by the authors of the right for publication. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication. If the authors wish to include the same data into another publication, they must cite Textos & Contextos (Porto Alegre) as the site of original publication.

Creative Commons License

Except where otherwise specified, material published in this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is correctly cited.