A Case for Routine Involvement of Threat Assessment and Management Teams with College Students at Risk for Suicide

Autor/in	Polychronis, Paul D.
Titel	A Case for Routine Involvement of Threat Assessment and Management Teams with College Students at Risk for Suicide
Quelle	In: Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 33 (2019) 4, S.290-298 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	8756-8225
DOI	10.1080/87568225.2018.1492359
Schlagwörter	At Risk Students; Suicide; College Students; Prevention; Student Personnel Services; Counseling Services; Violence; School Safety; Cooperation; Referral + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Selbstmord; Collegestudent; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Gewalt; Co-operation; Kooperation
Abstract	Institutions of higher education and their counseling centers are under intense pressure to prevent student suicide. This article proposes that routinely using threat assessment and management teams in working with suicidal students would add value to existing suicide prevention efforts. The unique features of threat assessment and management provide several advantages over traditional clinical intervention. First and foremost, the majority of students who die of suicide do not seek services from campus counseling centers. These students may, nonetheless, come to the attention of campus constituents in a number of ways and may readily be referred to a threat assessment and management team. For students who are clients of the counseling center, a campus should still activate a threat assessment and management process. In this way, threat assessment and management may be useful for students who refuse to seek help as well as in providing assistance when students are engaged in treatment. Nonetheless, higher education in general and counseling centers in particular have not engaged in a standard practice of involving threat assessment and management teams with students who present at risk for suicide. Limitations to clinical approaches for suicide prevention are reviewed in contrast with the complementary advantages of threat assessment and management as applied to suicidal students. Regularly including threat assessment and management in working with suicidal students in higher education may provide synergy in improving the likelihood of desirable outcomes in preventing suicides. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01