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The extensively updated second edition of Suicide in Schools provides school-based professionals with practical, easy-to-use guidance on developing and implementing effective suicide prevention, assessment, intervention, and postvention strategies. The Suicide in Schools Model provides listeners with clear, step-by-step guidelines on how to work proactively with school personnel and community professionals, how to screen, assess, and monitor suicide risk, create collaborative safety plans, and plan for reentry after a suicidal crisis. The authors expand this new edition with detailed case examples and innovative approaches such as upstream prevention strategies, usable handouts, and internet resources to effectively work with youth facing a suicidal crisis as well as students, families, and school staff who have suffered a suicide loss. Updates include expanding the literature on cyberbullying and social media, the higher risk of suicide in ethnoracial minoritized youth and LGBTQ+ students, and the role of suicide in school violence. This book is essential listening for school-based administrators, crisis team members, and mental health professionals as well as for outside providers who work collaboratively with school districts.

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Terri A. Erbacher has practiced as a school psychologist for nearly twenty-five years. She has won awards for suicide prevention advocacy and is a trainer and consultant at erbacherconsulting.com. Scott Poland is a professor at Nova Southeastern University. He is a pioneer in the field of suicide prevention, having coauthored numerous books, chapters, and state plans on the subject. Jonathan B. Singer is a professor at Loyola University Chicago's School of Social Work, past president of the American Association of Suicidology, and founder and host of the award-winning Social Work Podcast. Angela Juarez has been narrating books since 2019. Her favorite books are the kind that make her kids laugh out loud! The best part of her day is getting to play with her two wonderful children. Her love language is food.

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