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Mobilizing Schools for Suicide Prevention
Author(s) -
Ross Charlotte P.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1980.tb00705.x
Subject(s) - psychology , suicide prevention , depression (economics) , medical education , resource (disambiguation) , poison control , medicine , medical emergency , economics , macroeconomics , computer network , computer science
Experience in providing consultation and survivor counseling to school personnel following student suicides led to the development of a program of prevention through training school personnel. The goal of the program was to increase the ability of resource persons available to adolescents—teachers, counselors and school nurses—to recognize signs of suicidal depression and to respond effectively to suicidal students. This report describes that program, the reaction of the participants and the observations of the project staff, and comments on the feasibility of this approach as a means of helping to prevent suicide among adolescents.