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Language matters. The words and phrases we use can shape our experience and the experience of others. The use of appropriate language is crucial to facilitating appropriate support to people in distress. Language Matters: Appropriate Language Guide for Supporting People in Distress is a valuable real-world resource. It discusses language that is useful and language that is problematic. It provides a practical set of terms and definitions for compassionately dealing with the distress related to a broad spectrum of human difficulties experienced by many people and frequently encountered by anyone involved in the suicide prevention/mental health field. If you are a health/welfare worker or a human resources professional, or anyone with an interest in mental health and suicide prevention, and you would like to use language that helps rather than harms, Language Matters is an important resource for you. Language Matters is a companion to the book Default Depression: How we now interpret distress as mental illness, published in Adelaide by Wakefield Press in 2023.

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Anthony Smith has established a national profile in Australian suicide prevention. He is the author of Default Depression: How we now interpret distress as mental illness (Wakefield Press) and co-author of the 'Situational Approach' papers and other suicide prevention papers and research. Anthony has a long history of activity in a range of suicide prevention settings. He is currently an investigator working with the Critical and Ethical Mental Health (CEMH) group at the University of Adelaide on a major federally funded suicide prevention research project. Melissa Raven is a research fellow with the Critical and Ethical Mental Health group at the University of Adelaide. She originally qualified as a clinical psychologist, and subsequently completed a masters in epidemiology and a PhD critically analysing claims and evidence about depression and antidepressants. Her mental health research and advocacy is informed by a strong social determinants perspective and a strong critical orientation, which she applies to a range of topics, including suicide prevention, workplace mental health, (over)diagnosis, (inappropriate) prescribing, and financial/ nonfinancial conflicts of interest in mental health and the broader health/welfare arena.

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