Health Check

How words can save lives

Dec 7, 2022 · 26 min · 12.7 MB
0:00-26:28

Streams straight from the publisher. podnod never proxies or re-hosts episode audio.

Claudia meets Professor Elizabeth Stokoe author of 'Crisis Talk' whose research shows when preventing a suicide, that words really do matter and can save lives during a crisis. Through analysing real time recordings of actual conversations between people in crisis and police negotiators, new findings highlight what can work and what doesn't. (Picture: Vector illustration of two profiles of women with speech bubbles inside their heads. Photo credit: JakeOlimb/Getty Images.)

Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Erika Wright