Are teachers of children and young adolescents responsive to suicide prevention training modules?  Yes.
Both before and after a 1-hour suicide prevention training module, 75 elementary teachers-in-training read a 4-sentence vignette about a suicidal student ("Pat"), then completed 8 questions about their responses.  Compared with pretraining, at post-training these teachers were more likely to say that they would send or escort Pat to the counselor's office, use written or verbal no-suicide agreements, call Pat's parents, believe Pat to be serious rather than simply seeking attention, and feel comfortable handling a similar situation. Increased proactive attitudes after one hour of training imply that teachers would benefit from periodic suicide awareness and prevention training modules.
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University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, USA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D009042:Motivation; D011580:Psychological Techniques; D013663:Teaching; D000092864:Suicide Prevention