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Key Considerations:
It is very important to
treat all deaths in the
same way.
Planning
Information for faculty of Dartmouth High
Adolescents are School when a loss of a student results in
especially vulnerable to a death by suicide.
the risk of suicide
contagion, it’s equally
important to
memorialize the
exposure to suicide
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www.zerosuicide.sprc.org
Suicide can have a tremendous impact on schools, Encourage students to think about specific
leading to profound grief among students, family things they can do when intense emotions such
members, and school personnel. Schools must be as worry or sadness begin to well u, including:
National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention
prepared to address these consequences.
Simple relaxation and distraction skills,
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Suicide response should be just one such as taking three deep slow
component of your school’s broad crisis breathes, counting to 10, or picturing Washington, DC 20007
plan. Many protocols for dealing with themselves in a favorite calm and
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other unexpected deaths will help you relaxing place
cope with a suicide as well. Engaging in favorite activities or
Make sure you review and revise the plan hobbies such as music, talking with a
regularly. friend, reading, or going to a movie
Count on mental health providers and Exercising
resources in your community. Try and Thinking about how they’ve coped with
engage regularly with the community difficulties in the past and reminding
resources so that you are not meeting themselves that they can use those
them for the first time during a crisis. same coping skills now
Writing a list of people they can turn to
for support
Writing a list of things they’re looking
forward to References:
Focusing on individual goals, such as
Suicide Prevention Resource Center. (2017).
returning to a shared class or spending
Retrieved from www.sprc.org
time with mutual friends