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2022/12/07 GMT

How words can save lives

BBC World Service - Health Check, How words can save lives

Negotiating a crisis and how words can save lives

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

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