Antoon Leenaars

Antoon A. Leenaars (born 1951)[1] is a Canadian psychologist practicing in Windsor, Ontario. He is known for his research on suicide.[2] He has written a book about suicide in the military, which he has called a growing problem.[3] He has also dismissed the claim, often made by Canadian politicians, that country's military has a lower suicide rate than the general population, a claim he says seems to be "whitewashing".[4] After Kelly Johnson, a police officer from London, Ontario, shot and killed a retiree and then killed herself, London's police department hired Leenaars to write a book about murder-suicides by police. The book he wrote for them, Suicide and Homicide-Suicide Among Police, was published in 2010.[5]

Honors, awards, and positions

Leenaars is the former president of the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (CASP) and the American Association of Suicidology (AAS) (of which he is the only non-American to be president). He was the founding editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Archives of Suicide Research. He has received, among other awards, the International Association for Suicide Prevention's Stengel Award, CASP's Research Award, and AAS's Shneidman Award.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Antoon Leenaars". Library of Congress. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  2. ↑ Anderssen, Erin (24 September 2011). "Teen suicide: 'We're not going to sit in silence'". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "Military suicides sadly familiar for Windsor vets, family". CBC News. 5 December 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  4. ↑ Cobb, Chris (7 November 2014). "Military suicides an 'epidemic,' says Canadian expert". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  5. ↑ Maloney, Patrick (17 August 2010). "Police murder-suicide an 'epidemic'". London Free Press. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  6. ↑ "Antoon Leenaars". Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention Conference. Retrieved 22 June 2016.


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