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Abstract

The rising tide of adolescent suicide as a problem must be carefully addressed by the school. In reviewing the current knowledge base, certain programmatic response plans can be deduced. Apart from serving as liaison for adolescents, families, and outside professional help, and mobilizing support and community resources, the school has a definite role to play in prevention, (suicide education and identification of at-risk adolescents), in early intervention, (initial risk assessment, reducing lethality, and providing support and psychological first aid), and in postvention (attending to bereaved survivors and containing suicide clusters).

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