Suicide: Coping Strategies For Educators & Students | Stanford

This video offers strategies for navigating the time after your community has experienced a suicide, particularly for educators helping students cope with death and loss.

Dr. Shashank Joshi, a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and Serena Ojakian, a Teacher and Suicide Prevention Advocate, explain how to answer student questions, how to incorporate social emotional learning (SEL) concepts into grief support work in the classroom, and how to support coping and processing together.

0:00 Introduction
0:43 Navigating the first days after a loss
2:58 Answering student questions
4:05 Social emotional learning (SEL)
5:01 Outlets and different ways of grieving
6:13 Coping and moving forward

Crisis Support:
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988
https://988lifeline.org/
Crisis Text Line: Text any word to 741741

Additional Resources:
After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools, 2nd Ed.
https://afsp.org/after-a-suicide-a-to...

A Model School District Policy on Suicide Prevention
https://afsp.org/model-school-policy-...

The K12 Toolkit for Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention
https://www.heardalliance.org/help-to...

Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
https://casel.org/

The information in this video was accurate as of the upload date, 7/29/2022. For information purposes only. Consult your local medical authority or your healthcare practitioner for advice.

This video is a production of the Stanford Center for Health Education team, in collaboration with Stanford Medicine and the Stanford Center for Professional Development.

At the Stanford Center for Health Education, we believe that expanding access to engaging education has the power to change behaviors, improve health, and save lives.

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