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, screen, assess, and monitor suicide risk, create collaborative safety plans, and plan for re-entry after a suicidal crisis. The authors expand this new edition with detailed case examples, 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.
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.
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
Terri A. Erbacher, PhD, has practiced as a school psychologist for nearly 25 years. She has won awards for suicide prevention advocacy and is a trainer and consultant at erbacherconsulting.com.
Jonathan B. Singer, PhD, LCS, is a professor at Loyola University Chicagos School of Social Work, past-president of the American Association of Suicidology, and founder and host of the award-winning Social Work Podcast.
Scott Poland, EdD, is a professor at Nova Southeastern University. He is a pioneer in the field of suicide prevention, having co-authored numerous books, chapters, and state plans on the subject.
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