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Article: Student Suicide Prevention Begins With Recognition.(planning and implementation of preventive programmes)(Brief Article)
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- School Administrator
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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Since the 1950s, the suicide rate among adolescents has more than tripled. Suicide today is the second leading cause of death among adolescents. More teenagers die each year due to suicide than to homicide.
Based on these tragic findings, school administrators are beginning to investigate comprehensive school suicide-prevention programs aimed at training school professionals to identify students at risk for suicidal behavior.
Since school administrators serve as empowerers of teachers, promoters and protectors of school values, leaders of instruction and managers of school climate, they play, not surprisingly, a crucial role in developing and ...