| خلاصه مقاله | Community-Wide Approach to Youth Suicide Prevention
Sanaz Norouzi, MD, Assistant professor of psychiatry(child and adolescent)
Research center of psychiatry and behavioral sciences ,Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Many youth suicides are preventable but there is no single answer or simple solution to preventing youth suicide. There is no such thing as a singular “one size-fits-all” approach to preventing youth suicide. A Comprehensive Approach should be Multi-strategy which are implemented across an array of settings & contexts.
Primary Focus &Types of Strategies: For Whole Populations: Well-Being & Resilience Promotion, For Potential Interveners: Education & Early Detection ,For Individual/Groups at Risk: Risk Assessment & Treatment ,for Survivors of Suicide: Postvention & Bereavement. The content most relevant to indigenous Youth ,Parents & Families ,Schools and Communities.
A number of key target groups and efforts and strategies for each settings are summarized here:
Being & Resilience Promotion :-Youth: Positive Youth Development, Youth Skill Building ,Youth Participation & Engagement, -Parents and Families: Parent/Family Support Programs, -Schools: School-Based Mental Health Promotion, -Communities: Changing Social Norms Education & Early Detection: -Youth: Youth Education About Mental Health & Suicide, -Parents and Families: Parent Education About Suicide, -School: School-Based Screening ,School and Community Gatekeeper Training, -Communities: Physician/Hospital Staff Education ,Risk Assessment & Treatments, -Youth: Empathic connection & strong alliance ,Risk Assessment & Documentation ,Crisis response & Safety Planning ,Treatment, -Parents and Families: Parent/Family/Caregiver Involvement in treatment ,Family Interventions for Youth at Risk, -School: School Interventions for Youth at Risk, -Communities: Continuity of Care ,Means Restriction. Postvention & Bereavement: -Youth: Understanding & Reducing Contagion ,Supporting Youth Survivors, -Parents and Families: Supporting Family Survivors, -Schools: School Protocols, -Communities: Community Protocols ,Media Education. Child and youth mental health clinicians have a responsibility to assess and treat suicidal youth and their families. |