Preventing and Responding to Student Suicide: A Practical Guide for FE and HE Settings

The first of its kind, this authoritative and comprehensive book covers issues related to suicide risk, prevention and postvention. Compiled by 35 experts including a foreword from Student Minds CEO, Rosie Tressler OBE, the book offers pragmatic insight into an issue of increasing concern within HE settings.

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.

• | Author: Jo Smith, Sharon Mallon
• | Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• | Publication Date: Nov 18, 2021
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781787754188
• | ISBN-10: 1787754189