The Role of Teachers in School-Based Suicide Prevention: A Qualitative Study of School Staff Perspectives

Erum Nadeem1, Sheryl H. Kataoka2, Vickie Y. Chang3, Pamela Vona4, Marleen Wong5, Bradley D. Stein6
1Division of Mental Health Services and Policy Research, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
2Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
3Osher Center for Integrative Medicine University of California San Francisco San Francisco USA
4UCLA Center for Health Services and Society, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
5School of Social Work University of Southern California Los Angeles USA
6RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA USA

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