Preventing and Responding to Student Suicide: A Practical Guide for FE and HE Settings

Mallon, Sharon (Editor) / Smith, Jo (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1787754189 / ISBN 13: 9781787754188

Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2021

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400 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Preventing and Responding to Student Suicide: A Practical Guide for FE and HE Settings
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787754189
• ISBN 13: 9781787754188
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.59 kilograms

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Synopsis

This practical book covers issues related to suicide risk, prevention and postvention in Higher and Further Education communities. Compiled by 37 experts, it is an authoritative guide to an issue that is causing increasingly large concern for FE and HE institutions and covers multiple evidence-backed approaches with a pragmatic focus. It is the first that specifically deals with student suicide in FE Colleges and universities, encouraging a holistic, institutional response.
Chapters are split into three sections, beginning with understanding and preventing student suicide among students, followed by responses to risk, including a model for student prevention in HE settings. The book concludes with the response to student death by suicide with advice on postvention, and how to support bereaved family, staff, and students.

About the Authors

Sharon Mallon BSc, PhD, SFHEA, is a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University. Her teaching areas include critical approaches to mental health theory and practice. She was awarded a PhD for her qualitative study of the impact of student suicide from the perspective of their friends and was one of the authors of the RaPSS study (Response and Prevention in Student Suicide). Her research interests have developed to include social approaches to understanding death by suicide and exploring the wider impact of suicide bereavement on different bereaved groups.

Jo is an Emeritus Professor of Early Intervention and Psychosis at University of Worcester. She a Clinical Psychologist by profession, with 34 years NHS clinical experience. Jo was project lead for 'Suicide Safer' a multiagency student suicide prevention initiative at University of Worcester, shortlisted for a Times HE (2018) 'Outstanding Support for Students' Award. She is a member of the international 'Zero Suicide' initiative and co-authored the 'International Declaration on Zero Suicide in Healthcare', published in 2015. She was a member of national UUK working groups which produced UUK (2017) '#Stepchange: Mental health in Higher Education', UUK (2018) 'Minding Our Future' and UUK and PAPYRUS (2018) 'Suicide Safer Universities' Toolkit. Jo has supervised two PhD research studentships exploring aspects of student suicide in UK HE.