Circle of Strength: a Case Description of Culturally Integrated Suicide Prevention

This article presents the case of an American Indian female at high risk for suicide in an effort to document the potential effectiveness of a college student suicide prevention program designed for Northern Plain American Indian students. The program is integrative & culturally grounded within the medicine wheel, stressing continuity of care through programming & ongoing communication across support systems. The case presented illustrates the secondary prevention aspects of the model, & how utilizing the model within the framework of continuous care was helpful for a suicidal person & produced a successful outcome over the course of 6 months. (15 refs.) JA