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Suicide Prevention: Instructor's Manual
Publication year:
2007
| Cataloged on:
Jan. 28, 2008
ANNOTATION: Participants of this 32-hour training program about suicide prevention should be able to: recognize characteristics of correctional facilities that foster suicide; list signs and symptoms of a possible suicidal inmate; know the times for increased suicidal risk; recognize the events that can trigger a possible suicide; know how to respond to an actively suicidal inmate; and understand the importance of early suicide intervention. This manual contains student materials, lesson plans, tests, and additional information.
Four video clips accompany this lesson. A short introduction (1:03 min.) provides some sobering statistics about suicide in correctional facilities; two clips (3:53 min. and 3:13 min.) show how the Initial Needs Survey (INS) is administered to two different individuals (one possibly at-risk for suicide); and a conclusion which relates in part how the Orange County Jail System has experienced only five suicides over the last ten years (during which 831,040 people were booked).