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Citation |
Freedenthal SL. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2010; 40(6): 628-639. |
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Affiliation |
Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2010, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons) |
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21198332 |
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Abstract |
The Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program has gained national and international recognition for its school- and community-based activities. After the introduction of Yellow Ribbon to a Denver-area high school, staff and adolescents were surveyed to determine if help-seeking behavior had increased. Using a pre-post intervention design, staff at an experimental school and comparison school were surveyed about their experiences with student help-seeking. Additionally, 146 students at the experimental high school were surveyed. Staff did not report any increase in student help-seeking, and students' reports of help-seeking from 11 of 12 different types of helpers did not increase; the exception was help-seeking from a crisis hotline, which increased from 2.1% to 6.9%. Further research with larger, more inclusive samples is needed to determine whether Yellow Ribbon is effective in other locations. Language: en |