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Suicide
NASP. (n.d.) Preventing Youth Suicide -- Tips for Parents and Educators. http://www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/suicideprevention.aspx
The site is created for parents and educators by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP). The page itself contains very handy tips for identifying risk factors and detecting warning signs. Specific risk factors include family stress or dysfunction, while warning signs include threats to commit suicide. The page also includes information about how to handle a suicidal young person. The role of the school is described, which is paritcularly relevant. The site indicates that it is very important that educators and parents work together in cases where thoughts and plans of suicide are suspected.
In addition to the helpful information on the page itself, the site also includes links to further NASP resources, along with links to sources beyond NASP. These are offered at the end of the page. To the left of the page, several links are offered to further information about...
(n.d.) Lesson Plan: "Suicide." In the Mix. Retrieved from: http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/educators/lessons/depression2/
The page provides a lesson plan for teachers who wish to inform their students about the serious nature of suicide. The target group of studens includes grades 7-12, which is the group most affected by suicide. The lesson includes links to resources in terms of published case studies and videos.
The "materials needed" section includes a series of links to the articles and video to be examined to reach the objectives of the lesson. The procedure is described thoroughly by means of nine steps. At the end of the document, several links are provided to relevant sources.
The lesson plan seems to include a large amount of useful information not only for use in the lesson itself, but also for further investigation or modification of the lesson provided.
Brown University (2013). Suicide Prevention Information and Resources for Educators (SPIRE). Public Health…
Firestone, L. (2009). Teen Suicide Prevention: Teachers and Educators. Psychalive. Retrieved from: http://www.psychalive.org/2010/03/teachers-and-educators/
After a brief description of the role teachers play to prevent suicide among their students, the site offers the national suicide prevention lifeline number, followed by links to articles and documents providing advice about suicide. This is followed by several videos, Websites and books that offer various kinds of advice about suicide.
The site also offers links to relevant articles, along with a form for feedback. To the left of the page, links to the site's Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google+ accounts are displayed. While there is relatively little information written in the page itself, the varied sources provided and the relevance of these sources are impressive indeed. It offers an extremely helpful range of resources that teachers can use for their own information or to incorporate as part of their lessons.
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