Speaker
Larry Berkowitz, Ed.D., Co-Founder and Director, Riverside Trauma Center
Description
This presentation will help school based clinical staff guide schools through tragedy by learning effective, best practice strategies to support students, faculty, staff and families after a suicide death. Content includes tasks for conducting postvention activities, use of screening tools in a postvention setting, and strategies for responding to typical dilemmas such as handling memorials, responding to denial that the death was a suicide and reacting to information spread on social media. The presentation shares qualitative data from interviews with young adults who were students in schools where they experienced the suicide death of a student in their middle or high school.