Postvention: helping students deal with death.
A psychiatric hospital was called upon to help students deal with the precipitous death of a classmate. A program has since been developed to involve teachers, school counselors, and administrators in identifying students at high risk of suicide and in helping students through the grief process.
D000293:Adolescent; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D010414:Pennsylvania; D012572:School Health Services; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000628:therapy*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires