Universal School-Based Screenings for Depression and Suicide: Identifying Students at Risk of Suicide

Autor/inn/en	Mirick, Rebecca G.; Berkowitz, Larry; McCauley, James; Bridger, Joanna
Titel	Universal School-Based Screenings for Depression and Suicide: Identifying Students at Risk of Suicide
Quelle	In: Children & Schools, 45 (2023) 2, S.100-109 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1532-8759
DOI	10.1093/cs/cdad003
Schlagwörter	Suicide; Prevention; At Risk Students; Screening Tests; Depression (Psychology); School Health Services; Middle School Students; High School Students; Mental Health; Gender Differences; Help Seeking; Death; Identification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Selbstmord; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Screening-Verfahren; Schuleingangsuntersuchung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Psychohygiene; Geschlechterkonflikt; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Identifikation; Identifizierung
Abstract	Schools have an important role to play in adolescent suicide prevention. This article describes universal screenings for depression and suicidality as one component of the Signs of Suicide (SOS) program in middle and high schools following the suicide death of a student in the past few years. Of the students screened (N = 7,429), 11.0 percent of youth were identified as at risk by the screening tool; 17.3 percent received a same-day secondary screen with a mental health professional. (Students without an at-risk screen could request a meeting with a mental health professional, so more students received secondary screenings than screened at risk.) Characteristics associated with an at-risk screen on the screening tool were identified. Girls were twice as likely to be identified as at risk than boys, and students exposed to a suicide death in the past year were 1.3 times more likely to have an at-risk screen. There was no difference in at-risk screens for middle versus high school students, but middle schoolers were more likely to receive a secondary screening due to help seeking from school staff. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications for school administrators at middle and high schools, including recommendations to screen with both a screening tool and an option to speak to an adult, strategies for planning for secondary screenings, and advantages to universal screening following the suicide death of a student. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01