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Preventing and responding to student suicide / edited by Sharon Mallon and Jo Smith ; foreword by Rosie Tressler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London ; Philadelphia, PA : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2022.Description: 400 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781787754188
Other title:
  • Subtitle on cover: Practical guide for FE and HE settings
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV6545.8 .P74 2022
Summary: This practical book covers issues related to suicide risk, prevention and postvention in Higher and Further Education communities. Compiled by 37 experts, it is an authoritative guide to an issue that is causing increasingly large concern for FE and HE institutions and covers multiple evidence-backed approaches with a pragmatic focus. It is the first that specifically deals with student suicide in FE Colleges and universities, encouraging a holistic, institutional response. Chapters are split into three sections, beginning with understanding and preventing student suicide among students, followed by responses to risk, including a model for student prevention in HE settings. The book concludes with the response to student death by suicide with advice on postvention, and how to support bereaved family, staff, and students.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

This practical book covers issues related to suicide risk, prevention and postvention in Higher and Further Education communities. Compiled by 37 experts, it is an authoritative guide to an issue that is causing increasingly large concern for FE and HE institutions and covers multiple evidence-backed approaches with a pragmatic focus. It is the first that specifically deals with student suicide in FE Colleges and universities, encouraging a holistic, institutional response.
Chapters are split into three sections, beginning with understanding and preventing student suicide among students, followed by responses to risk, including a model for student prevention in HE settings. The book concludes with the response to student death by suicide with advice on postvention, and how to support bereaved family, staff, and students.

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