Intervention and prevention of youth suicide for educators

Format

Individual Presentation

First Presenter's Institution

The i'Mpossible Project

Second Presenter's Institution

NA

Third Presenter's Institution

NA

Fourth Presenter's Institution

NA

Fifth Presenter's Institution

NA

Location

Session 1 Breakouts

Strand #1

Health: Mental & Physical Health

Strand #2

Heart: Social & Emotional Skills

Relevance

Depression is THE leading cause of disability around the world, including in school environments. Untreated depression is one of many major causes of suicide ideation.

Students don't just bring themselves to school, they bring their home lives and emotional baggage as well.

Suicide is a (public) health issue and highly preventable and treatable, as is depression. Intervening when a student expresses suicide ideation requires training and a high level of social and emotional skills (SEL). These special SEL skills will be taught in this session on suicide prevention.

Brief Program Description

Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death for young people ages 15-18, and 3rd for ages 10-14. This session will cover the "why" behind suicide ideation, signs and symptoms, and how to prevent and intervene (as a layperson) if necessary. We will discuss how to refer a student to proper resources and support on and off campus, and faculty/staff self-care.

Summary

This session is a practical approach for educators to learn about suicide prevention and to watch a demonstration on how to intervene if a student is experiencing suicide ideation.

This session is a mixture of lecture, improvisation, Q&A integrated within, and group discussion. Attendees will be able to take home the tangible skills being offered as well as a PowerPoint that will be used as part of the session.

It is important that with a topic like this that attendees don't sit back and listen but are actively engaged so they can apply their knowledge to their respective work/learning environments.

Evidence

This program was created by The i'Mpossible Project and drew from components from widely adopted programs or methodologies highly researched or proven to be in best practices. These programs and methodologies include: QPR (question, persuade, refer) suicide prevention training created by Paul Quinnett, PhD; ASIST - Applied Suicide Intervention Skills and Training, a world leader in suicide intervention training; psychodrama and sociodrama first developed by world renowned psychiatrist Jacob Levy Moreno, the (U.S.) National Institutes of Health National Strategy for Suicide Prevention 2012 strategic direction 1; the research and findings on the effects of storytelling on the brain by Annie Murphy Paul, M.S. and the author of Brilliant: The New Science of Smart, and Jeremy Hsu, M.S. a contributor for “Scientific American,” and “Popular Science;” and the research of Dr. R. Keith Sawyer the Morgan Distinguished Professor in Educational Innovations at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

As a result of this program, previous attendees have reported:

  • An increased understanding of why youth experience suicide ideation
  • An increased comfortability in intervening if a student is experiencing a mental health breakdown
  • An increased understanding that mental health conditions (sometimes called “illnesses” or “disorders”) are real conditions that can be helped and treated
  • More favorable attitudes (empathy) toward people in suicidal crisis and people who die by suicide
  • An increased ability to recognize both risk factors for suicide and signs and symptoms of suicidal ideation
  • A greater recognition of the need to have multi-tiered layers of in-school support and the need to practice self-care to prevent "compassion fatigue"

Learning Objectives

Attendees will have:

• An increased ability to recognize the signs and symptoms of suicide in students

• An increased awareness and understanding of risk factors for youth suicide

• An increased awareness of local and national resources of help for suicidal students

• An increased comfortability in intervening and assisting if a student is experiencing a mental health breakdown or suicidal crisis

Biographical Sketch

Joshua Rivedal—speaker, mental nutritionist, social entrepreneur—is the creator and founder of Changing Minds: A Mental Health Based Curriculum and The i’Mpossible Project. He has spoken about suicide prevention and mental health across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Australia. He was trained in human capital management at NYU, and emotional intelligence at Yale University’s Center for Emotional Intelligence. He is the author of five books and a co-author of three scientific peer-reviewed journal papers, one on the trajectory of the survivor of suicide loss, another on the art of living with chronic illness, the third on surviving trauma.

Keyword Descriptors

mental health, self care, trauma, crisis management, intervention, prevention, suicide, emotional intelligence, communication skills

Presentation Year

2021

Start Date

3-8-2021 10:20 AM

End Date

3-8-2021 11:20 AM

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Intervention and prevention of youth suicide for educators

Session 1 Breakouts

Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death for young people ages 15-18, and 3rd for ages 10-14. This session will cover the "why" behind suicide ideation, signs and symptoms, and how to prevent and intervene (as a layperson) if necessary. We will discuss how to refer a student to proper resources and support on and off campus, and faculty/staff self-care.