School-Based Strategies for Youth Suicide Prevention

International Handbook of Suicide Prevention: Research, Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 507-529

  Lake, Alison M ^a   Gould, Madelyn S ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) adult gatekeeper training programme, in communities; Gatekeeper training, giving teens and adults knowledge and skills, for identifying at risk youth; One gatekeeper training programme improving youth knowledge, attitudes about suicide; Question, Persuade, and Refer (QPR) QPR gatekeeper training, for adults in contact with youth; School setting, opportunities for suicide prevention efforts targeting adolescents; School based mental health screening programmes identifying at risk youth; School based strategies for youth suicide prevention; School based suicide prevention programmes youth suicide prevention, and suicidal crisis; Screening for at risk youth universal mental health screening, a suicide prevention strategy; Two comprehensive school programmes and decline, in youth suicide rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886157559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119998556.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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