Suicide Among the Armed Forces ─ Understanding the Cost of Service

An investigation, using individual case studies and general/population approaches, of the cost of military service—looking at the epidemic of suicides among active military personnel and veterans, the causes and patterns, the effects of military culture, historical comparisons, and comparisons between military and civilian suicides and between the United States and Canada.

Antoon A. Leenaars, PhD, CPsych, CPQ, is a psychologist in private practice in mental health and public health in Windsor, Canada, and Senior Advisor to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo. He is the first past president of the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (CASP) and a past president of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS). He has published extensively, including his book Suicide and Homicide-Suicide Among Police, and was the first editor-in-chief of the journal Archives of Suicide Research. Dr. Leenaars has received the International Association for Suicide Prevention's Erwin Stengel Award, CASP's Research Award, and AAS's Edwin Shneidman Award. He has consulted to the WHO and provided forensic services in cases of wrongful death, suicide, homicide-suicide, and homicide.