Dancing in the Dark: Understanding the Role of Identity as a Factor in Suicidality Disclosure and Non-Disclosure in Workplaces

In this course, Martina McGrath, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, shares grim statistics on global suicide and offers multiple definitions of suicidality. She outlines the main aspects of her study (such as the aims, methods, and four principle themes of findings), and then discusses the findings related to her theme of how people can protect their personal and professional identities when making decisions about suicidality disclosure in the workplace. The numerous quotes presented by McGrath bring the findings to life, illustrating the fraught nature of such disclosures, in a way that sheer citation of statistics would never be able to do. Her concluding remarks include a list of organisations which are improving workplaces for greater equity, access, participation, and inclusion.