Main description:

Meeting a crucial need, this book distills the best current knowledge on child and adolescent suicide prevention into comprehensive guidelines for school-based practitioners. The author draws on extensive research and clinical experience to provide best-practice recommendations for developing schoolwide prevention programs, conducting risk assessments, and intervening at different levels of intensity with students at risk. Also presented are postvention procedures for responding effectively if a suicide does occur. Legal and ethical issues are addressed in detail. Reproducible handouts include sample assessment questions for students, teachers, and parents; the book's large-size format and lay-flat binding facilitate photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by T. Chris Riley-Tillman.

Contents:

1. Suicidal Behavior in Children and Adolescents: An Introduction and Overview 2. Youth Suicidal Behavior and the Schools 3. A Public Health Approach to Youth Suicide Prevention 4. Universal School-Based Suicide Prevention Programs for All Students 5. Identifying At-Risk and High-Risk Students and Linking Assessment to Intervention 6. Selected and Tertiary Interventions for At-Risk and High-Risk Students 7. School-Based Suicide Postvention Epilogue Appendix A. Student Suicide Case Law in Public Schools, Richard Fossey and Perry A. Zirkel Appendix B. Recommended Resources