{"id":13944,"date":"2025-11-10T04:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/11\/10\/advancing-suicide-prevention-university-webinar\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T04:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:53:41","slug":"advancing-suicide-prevention-university-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/11\/10\/advancing-suicide-prevention-university-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing Suicide Prevention Through University Webinar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fatima Jinnah Women University convened a focused webinar on suicide prevention that engaged over 70 participants from academic and counseling circles, highlighting the growing need to address mental health challenges in Pakistan. The session was jointly organized by the <strong>Counselling &#038; Wellness Centre<\/strong>, the <strong>National Centre for Research on Suicide Prevention<\/strong>, the <strong>Office of Student Affairs<\/strong> and the <strong>Department of Behavioural Sciences<\/strong> at Fatima Jinnah Women University in collaboration with the <strong>Pakistan Institute of Living &#038; Learning (PILL)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The panel featured insightful presentations from <strong>Prof. Zainab Zadeh<\/strong>, <strong>Dr. Amna Noureen<\/strong> and <strong>Dr Iram Gul<\/strong>, who discussed psychological distress, suicidal ideation and practical strategies for advancing suicide prevention. Speakers emphasized how early identification, sensitive communication and coordinated support systems can reduce risk and improve outcomes for individuals struggling with mental health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Participants engaged actively during an extended question and answer session, which allowed students, counselors and faculty to seek guidance and clarify approaches to crisis intervention and ongoing support. The conversation underscored the importance of campus-based resources and community partnerships in strengthening suicide prevention efforts across Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers noted that the webinar represents a meaningful step toward building awareness and practical capacity, while calling for continued conversations and collaborative initiatives. The shared expertise and dialogue aim to support frontline responders, inform policy thinking and encourage institutions to prioritize mental health services as part of broader prevention strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FJWU webinar on suicide prevention shared expert insights and practical steps to boost mental health awareness and support across Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}