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Overview

Steven Stack is affiliated with Wayne State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on suicide and self-harm studies, with contributions spanning psychology, medicine, and social sciences.

The scientist's work covers multiple broad fields including:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine
  • Social Sciences

Within these domains, their subfields of study emphasize areas such as:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

The main topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Poisoning and overdose treatments
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Health and Medical Research Impacts
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Recent significant publications authored or co-authored by Steven Stack include:

  • "Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2020) published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Association between suicide reporting in the media and suicide: systematic review and meta-analysis" (2020) published in BMJ
  • "Contributing factors to suicide: Political, social, cultural and economic" (2021) published in Preventive Medicine
  • "Media guidelines and suicide: A critical review" (2020) published in Social Science & Medicine
  • "Fatal self-injury in the United States, 1999-2018: Unmasking a national mental health crisis" (2021) published in EClinicalMedicine

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Steven Stack include:

  • Thomas Niederkrotenthaler
  • Mark Sinyor
  • Jane Pirkis
  • Eric D. Caine
  • Ian R. H. Rockett

Steven Stack's work has appeared most often in these academic venues:

  • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Crisis
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • BMJ

Best Publications

  • Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    David Gunnell;Louis Appleby;Ella Arensman;Keith Hawton

  • Marital status and happiness : A 17-nation study

    S Stack;J R Eshleman

  • Media coverage as a risk factor in suicide

    S Stack

  • Suicide: A 15‐Year Review of the Sociological Literature Part II: Modernization and Social Integration Perspectives

    Steven Stack

  • Suicide: A 15‐Year Review of the Sociological Literature Part I: Cultural and Economic Factors

    Steven Stack

  • GENDER, CHILDREN AND RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY ?

    Steven Stack

  • Suicide in the Media: A Quantitative Review of Studies Based on Nonfictional Stories

    Steven Stack

  • The effect of religious commitment on suicide: a cross-national analysis.

    Steven Stack

  • Changes in suicide rates following media reports on celebrity suicide: a meta-analysis

    Thomas Niederkrotenthaler;King Wa Fu;Paul S F Yip;Daniel Y T Fong

  • CELEBRITIES AND SUICIDE: A TAXONOMY AND ANALYSIS, 1948-1983*

    Steven Stack

  • Association between suicide reporting in the media and suicide: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Thomas Niederkrotenthaler;Marlies Braun;Jane Pirkis;Benedikt Till

  • Media impacts on suicide : A quantitative review of 293 findings

    Steven Stack

  • Religion and Suicide Acceptability: A Cross‐National Analysis

    Steven Stack;Augustine J. Kposowa

  • Suicide: A decade review of the sociological literature

    Steven Stack

  • The effect of religiosity on tax fraud acceptability : A cross-national analysis

    Steven Stack;Augustine Kposowa

  • Income Inequality and Property Crime. A Cross-National Analysis of Relative Deprivation Theory

    Steven Stack

  • The Heavy Metal Subculture and Suicide

    Steven Stack;Jim Gundlach;Jimmie L. Reeves

  • Adult Social Bonds and Use of Internet Pornography

    Steven Stack;Ira Wasserman;Roger Kern

  • HOMICIDE FOLLOWED BY SUICIDE: AN ANALYSIS OF CHICAGO DATA

    Steven Stack

  • MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND LONELINESS: A Cross-National Study

    Steven Stack

Frequent Co-Authors

David Lester
David Lester Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
R. Kathryn McHugh
R. Kathryn McHugh Harvard University
Ulrich S. Tran
Ulrich S. Tran University of Vienna
Stefano Ferracuti
Stefano Ferracuti Sapienza University of Rome
Martin Voracek
Martin Voracek University of Vienna

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