Suicide in Schools

<p>The extensively updated second edition of <i>Suicide in Schools</i> provides school-based professionals with practical easy-to-use guidance on developing and implementing effective suicide prevention assessment intervention and postvention strategies. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p>