Center for the Treatment and Prevention of Suicide
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The Center for the Treatment and Prevention of Suicide (CTPS) is a unit of the Department of Psychiatry
at the University of Pennsylvania
. It was founded to further therapies for the prevention of suicide
attempts in high risk populations and conduct related research.
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
. It was founded to further therapies for the prevention of suicide
Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
attempts in high risk populations and conduct related research.