Full Description
The extensively updated second edition of Suicide in Schools provides school-based professionals with practical, easy-to-use guidance on developing and implementing effective suicide prevention, assessment, intervention, and postvention strategies.
The Suicide in Schools Model provides readers with clear, step-by-step guidelines on how to work proactively with school personnel and community professionals, how to screen, assess, and monitor suicide risk, create collaborative safety plans, and plan for reentry after a suicidal crisis. The authors expand this new edition with detailed case examples and innovative approaches such as upstream prevention strategies, usable handouts, and internet resources to effectively work with youth facing a suicidal crisis as well as students, families, and school staff who have suffered a suicide loss. Updates include expanding the literature on cyberbullying and social media, the higher risk of suicide in ethnoracial minoritized youth and LGBTQ+ students, and the role of suicide in school violence.
This book is essential reading for school-based administrators, crisis team members, and mental health professionals as well as for outside providers who work collaboratively with school districts.
Contents
1. Overview and Introduction 2. The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in School-Based Suicide Prevention, Assessment, Intervention, and Postvention 3. Prevention and Early Identification of Risk 4. Caring for the Caregiver: Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Vicarious Traumatization 5. School Crisis Team Response Planning 6. School Liability and Implications for Best Practice 7. Suicide Prevention Programs, Policies, and Protocols 8. Guidelines for Suicide Risk Screening, Assessment, and Monitoring 9. Intervening with a Potentially Suicidal Student 10. The Aftermath: Immediate Suicide Postvention Step-by-Step 11. The Bereaved Student, School, and Community
