Prevention of Youth Suicide.

Autor/in	Kalafat, John
Titel	Prevention of Youth Suicide.
Quelle	(1997), (40 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Child Health; Children; Elementary Secondary Education; Health Promotion; Prevention; Program Design; Program Development; School Health Services; School Role; Self Destructive Behavior; Self Injurious Behavior; Suicide; Youth Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Child; Kind; Kinder; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Programme design; Programmaufbau; Programmplanung; Schuleingangsuntersuchung; Self destrucive behaviour; Selbstzerstörung; Selbstmord
Abstract	This chapter provides an overview of current school-based youth suicide prevention efforts. Rather than review the wide variety of existing broad-based and focused school-based prevention programs, the chapter covers conceptually grounded exemplars for which there are some empirical data to illustrate recommended, available youth suicide prevention strategies. The review begins with a general prevention framework that describes these programs. Features of comprehensive school-based prevention programs are described as multilevel, multicomponent interventions that including the following components: (1) administrative consultation; (2) school gatekeeper training; (3) parent training; (4) community gatekeeper training; (5) student classes; and (6) postvention interventions, that is, intervention by external consultants to schools and communities in which a suicide or attempt at suicide has occurred. The chapter then addresses evaluation of school-based prevention programs. Issues in school-based prevention are enumerated, including: (1) reduction of access to common means of committing suicide (means restriction); (2) breaking down of the myth that talking with students about suicide will promote suicidal behavior (student curricula); and (3) availability of competent, accessible adults to intervene. The chapter concludes by noting that a general protective factor is the acquisition of social problem solving competencies. The chapter highlights a concern for the future about the conclusion on the part of some school personnel that the youth suicide problem has been solved and that proper resources are no longer needed to support effective school-based prevention programming. (Contains 154 references.) (SD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC