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Preventing Adolescent Suicide (PAS)
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Presented by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and America's Continuing Education Network

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Preventing Adolescent Suicide

Taking the time now to educate and prepare your school & community may one day save the life of a student. This program is intended to provide you with a framework around which you can build an effective adolescent suicide prevention program.

During this video program, leading experts provide you with a foundation of knowledge from which you can build or refine the skills needed to prevent teen suicide. The panelists provide brief presentations on Identification, Prevention and Postvention, followed by panel discussion on Intervention and other issues related to preventing youth suicide.

An Important Educational Program for School administrators, guidance counselors, teachers, nurses, psychologists, social workers, family service agency workers, community health and mental health professionals, community outreach workers, police, parents and advocates.

School care-givers and parents are well positioned to prevent adolescent suicide and school and community response could mean the difference between life and death for an adolescent.

YOU can make a difference!

Through Education and Training, Adolescent Suicide CAN be Prevented!

Order your copy of the Preventing Adolescent Suicide videotape and learn about the importance of developing suicide prevention programs, how to respond, what resources are available, and MORE!

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Five Minutes of your time can mean a lifetime to a suicidal adolescent!

The Team Up to Save Lives CD-ROM incorporates a three year research and prevention program funded by Ronald McDonald House Charities. It was developed by a team of psychiatrists, psychologists and health and education experts at the Institute for Juvenile Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Aimed at educators of Grades 7 and up, this comprehensive, interactive suicide prevention program can be used to help identify and assist at-risk students/youth. Copies of the program can also be printed from the CD-ROM and distributed at educator in-services, workshops, etc.

Team Up to Save Lives provides a framework which schools can use to build an effective suicide prevention program and includes:

- Instructional videos which show teachers how to communicate with at-risk young people and their parents.

- Detailed lessons on suicide risk factors, warning signs, intervention, means restriction and crisis response.

- Interactive evaluation, which tests users on their knowledge and returns them to lessons for review if questions are answered incorrectly.

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Meet the PAS Presenters

 

Dr. Marilyn Benoit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Peggy Whiting

 

 

 

 Dr. Marilyn Benoit, M.D., Medical Director of the Devereux Children's Center of Washington, D.C., and Clinical associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center, leads the panel in this interactive discussion.

Featured speakers include:
Lucy Davidson, MD, EdS- a private consultant in forensic psychiatry since 1993 specializing in areas including suicide and violence; classification of death; psychological autopsy and ethical issues at the end of life. Dr. Davidson also serves as Psychiatric Consultant to the Centers for Disease Control, Quarantine division. She is also Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine and serves on the National Board of Directors, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Frank Zenere - a School Psychologist for Dade County Public Schools, Miami, Florida, the fourth largest school district in the nation. He is a full time member of the school district's Department of Crisis Management, where he oversees the Suicide Prevention and School Crisis Management program. Mr. Zenere is the lead author of a recent study titled, "The Decline of Youth Suicidal Behavior in an Urban, Multicultural Public School System, following the Introduction of a Suicide Prevention and Intervention Program". This study will appear in the Winter, 1997 edition of "Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior", the official publication of the American Association of Suicidology.

Jerry Weyrauch- Chairman and Founder of the Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network (SPAN), a non-profit organization which produces awareness programs to raise national awareness of the problem, encourage those who need help to find it, and affirm the value of life. SPAN is Mr. Weyrauch's grief's journey-end following the suicide of his 34 year-old physician daughter.

Peggy P. Whiting, Ed.D. (NCC)-Associate Professor of Counselor Education at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC., Counseling and Development Program. Course teaching includes Group Counseling, Loss and Grief, Career Development, among others. Dr. Whiting is actively involved in consultation and community service, providing services for SC State Dept. of Education; Mercy Hospice Grief Camp Task Force; Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Hospital, among others. She served as an expert consultant for the WNSC-TV (Rock Hill, SC) production of Responding To Loss, a new one hour video program produced to help schools plan for and deal with sudden loss. She is also co-author of the accompanying Responding to Loss Manual. She has numerous presentations and publications to her credit.

 

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RESPONDING TO LOSS

Program Description
In an eighteen month period between 1995 and 1997, three teachers and sixteen students in one South Carolina school district were killed either by accidents or suicides. In a rural school in Blackville, SC, a student killed one teacher and wounded another before turning a gun on himself and committing suicide.

In these schools and thousands of others, death comes suddenly to school each year. When it does, most school administrators and teachers are ill prepared to deal with the crisis. Chaos and disruption of the education environment usually follow these events. Most schools have no idea of what to do and what to say when a crisis like this strikes.
A new one-hour program and accompanying manual, RESPONDING TO LOSS, was produced to help schools plan for and deal with sudden loss. RESPONDING TO LOSS, lays out a rational plan for helping schools work through the loss of a student, teacher or administrator. It shows schools how to develop a compassionate, caring response while maintaining the quality of the educational environment.

RESPONDING TO LOSS was developed through the cooperation of public schools across the state who have already gone through a crisis. In addition, the SC State Department of Education has linked its resources to the project to ensure that every school in the state has access to this critical program. In October, every school district in South Carolina will receive a complimentary copy of the program and manual with unlimited duplication rights. In January, a one-hour teacher in-service program is scheduled to help schools work on crisis response plans.

RESPONDING TO LOSS was produced by WNSC-TV, Rock Hill, SC. Producer for the project is Susan Collier, Outreach Producer at WNSC-TV. The video program is hosted by Carolyn Donges, Education Associate, Office of Education Design, SC State Department of Education Design. Consultants for the video project were Dr. Peggy P. Whiting, associate professor of counselor education at Winthrop University; Jennie D. Matthews, a counselor at Rock Hill High School; and Judy Mayo, Bereavement Coordinator, Hospice Community Care. Dr. Whiting and Ms. Matthews are also the authors of the accompanying manual.

For information on how to get a copy of Responding To Loss,
contact SCETV Marketing at: 800 553-7752

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