Preventing Youth Suicide: a Handbook for Educators and Human Service Professionals

This handbook includes the following topics: the magnitude of youth suicide, understanding students in crisis, recognizing predisposing conditions, developing crisis response teams, assessing suicide risk, crisis intervention, working with parents, implementing a postvention protocol, reducing suicide contagion, coping with grief, the school’s role in primary prevention, implementing primary prevention curricula, peer assistance programs, & the politics of collaboration.