Preventing Adolescent Suicide: do High School Counselors Know the Risk Factors?

This study was undertaken to explore the level of high school counsellors’ knowledge about adolescent suicide, whether they know the appropriate steps to take if they suspect a student to be suicidal, whether their schools have crisis intervention teams, whether they know the appropriate responses a school should make if a student commits suicide, whether their schools have included teaching about suicide prevention in their curriculums, & what factors influence their own levels of knowledge about adolescent suicide. (46 refs)