“I wish I could have helped him in some way or put the family on notice”: An exploration of teachers’ perceived strengths and deficits in overall knowledge of suicide

his article examined teachers’ capacity to identify suicide myths and explored their perceived strengths and deficits in overall knowledge of suicide. One hundred twenty-nine teachers from 41 schools in Spain participated. Teachers showed moderately low suicide myth identification, holding misconcep...

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Autores: Minelli de Oliveira, Janaina, Vicens Calderón, Paloma, Buenestado Caballero, Pablo|||0000-0003-3873-1362
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/334776
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/334776
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2020.1772449
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Suicide
Prevention
Schools
Spain
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Habilitats personals i competències
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Sumario:his article examined teachers’ capacity to identify suicide myths and explored their perceived strengths and deficits in overall knowledge of suicide. One hundred twenty-nine teachers from 41 schools in Spain participated. Teachers showed moderately low suicide myth identification, holding misconceptions related to suicide verbalizations. They felt poorly informed, but acknowledged their strategic role and wanted relevant information. Training initiatives should address communicative abilities, apart from information on suicide risk factors and protective factors associated with youth, warning signs of imminent risk of suicide and basic guidelines for first intervention in students’ suicide ideation, plan, or attempt.