SUICIDE PREVENTION: POLICY AND PROGRAMS.

Catalog description

Pre-requisites: junior standing. Examines the history of suicidal beliefs in Western culture and explores present-day suicidal issues as a public health problem. The goals, objectives, & strategies of the Surgeon General's National Strategy for Suicide Prevention and the public health model are discussed providing students with tools to examine current programs and cultural & social factors of suicide prevention. Students identify how understanding these policies and programs can promote community resiliency.