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.

Suicide in Schools: A Practitioner's Guide to Multi-level Prevention, Assessment, Intervention, and Postvention

Self-Help

Erbacher, Terri A.

Poland, Scott

Singer, Jonathan B.

Death & Grief

Routledge

Suicide in Schools

"Developing Comprehensive School Safety and Mental Health Programs offers an integrated, long-term plan for creating safe and supportive learning environments, illustrating how to develop and implement evidence-based programs that work. This accessible, user-friendly guide expresses empathy and appreciation for teachers, advocating for their personal growth, professional collaboration, and stress management. It informs about the need for school mental health professionals to be educated about mental health service delivery, organizational development, and facilitating and evaluating the implementation process; and describes the complementary roles of school administrators and school psychologists, providing teachers with time, resources, and ongoing support to strengthen their skills and sustain programs they have embraced. School leaders, counselors, and facilitators are provided the knowledge, skills, and long-term plans to effectively advocate, assess needs, select and prioritize programs, train and encourage staff, provide resources, implement, evaluate, and sustain desired goals"--

Developing Comprehensive School Safety and Mental Health Programs: An Integrated Approach

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Roth, Jeffrey C.

Mental Health

Developing Comprehensive School Safety and Mental Health Programs offers an integrated, long-term plan to create safe and supportive learning environments. 
This user-friendly guide illustrates how to develop, implement, evaluate, and sustain multiple evidence-based programs that work. This book informs school mental health professionals, administrators, and teachers about multi-tiered service delivery, organizational development, and facilitating the implementation process. It describes the complementary roles of school administrators, counselors, and school psychologists, providing school staff with time, resources, and ongoing support to strengthen their skills and sustain programs they have embraced. It expresses empathy and appreciation for teachers, advocating for their personal growth, professional collaboration, and stress management. 
School leaders, facilitators, and teams are provided the knowledge, skills, and long-term plans to effectively advocate, assess needs, select programs, train and encourage staff, provide resources, and implement, evaluate, and sustain desired goals.

Developing Comprehensive School Safety and Mental Health Programs

Suicide in Schools: A Practitioner's Guide to Multi-level Prevention, Assessment, Intervention, and Postvention (School-Based Practice in Action)

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 authors include detailed case examples, innovative approaches for professional practice, usable handouts, and internet resources on the best practice approaches to effectively work with youth who are experiencing a suicidal crisis as well as those students, families, school staff, and community members who have suffered the loss of a loved one to suicide. Readers will come away from this book with clear, step-by-step guidelines on how to work proactively with school personnel and community professionals, think about suicide prevention from a three-tiered systems approach, how to identify those who might be at risk, and how to support survivors after a traumatic event--all in a practical, user-friendly format geared especially for the needs of school-based professionals. Over 40 e-resources are available here: routledge.com/books/details/9780415857024/#eresources.

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