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Wall, F. Edward; Viers, Lawrence A. – NASSP Bulletin, 1985
The suicide of a competent and popular teacher required rapid but careful response by administrators at a midwestern high school. This article explains how faculty members and students were informed and how crisis specialists were brought in to help respond to strong student reactions. (PGD)
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Death, Group Counseling, High Schools
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Wells, Paula J. – Social Work, 1993
Provides guidelines from social work perspective on how social workers and health care professionals can provide bereavement counseling for families whose relatives have died in emergency room. Discusses providing family with privacy and accessibility; keeping family informed; using understandable terminology; speaking directly about death;…
Descriptors: Bereavement, Coping, Crisis Intervention, Death
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Hughes, Douglas; Kleespies, Phillip – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2001
The relationship between medical illness and suicide seems to be multi-faceted. While medical illness is not the sole determinant of suicide, certain illnesses, such as HIV/AIDS and brain cancers, do appear to elevate the risk of suicide. Possible effective prevention efforts include education of primary care providers, and improved medication…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, At Risk Persons, Cancer, Crisis Intervention