Suicide and Students With High-Incidence Disabilities: What Special Educators Need to Know
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Carrie A. Wachter Morris, Associate Professor & School Counseling Coordinator (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: The purpose of this article is threefold: To discuss suicide as it pertains to students diagnosed with high incidence disabilities.; To help special education teachers identify students at risk for suicide.; To identify how special educators can help intervene when a student is considering suicide. A positive relationship seems to exist among emotional and/or behavior disorders (EBD), suicidal ideation and suicide attempts (Fleischmann, Bertolote, Belfer, & Beautrais, 2005; Hamrick et al., 2004), and adolescent females with high-incidence disabilities (particularly EBD) think more about suicide and make more suicide attempts than their peers without a disability (Miller, 1994).
Suicide and Students With High-Incidence Disabilities: What Special Educators Need to Know
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Teaching Exceptional Children, 41(1), 66-72
- Language: English
- Date: 2008
- Keywords
- Suicide, Student health, Counselors, Disability, Crisis intervention, Risk factors