Citation

Drum DJ, Denmark AB. Harv. Rev. Psychiatry 2012; 20(4): 209-221.

Affiliation

From the Department of Educational Psychology (Dr. Drum) and Counseling and Mental Health Center (Dr. Burton Denmark), University of Texas at Austin .

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, President and Fellows of Harvard College, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.3109/10673229.2012.712841

PMID

22894730

Abstract

Colleges and universities are increasingly recognizing the need to expand suicide-prevention efforts beyond the standard, clinical-intervention paradigm of suicide prevention, which relies on referral to, and treatment by, mental health services. These services frequently struggle, however, to provide effective, comprehensive care. After reviewing findings that support the need to adopt a broader, problem-focused paradigm, the article provides a framework for bridging this paradigm with the clinical-intervention approach and for conceptualizing a full continuum of preventive interventions. For each level of intervention (ranging from the individual to the ecological), we describe the goals and methods used, and provide examples to illustrate the role of psychiatrists and other campus mental health providers in the collaborative partnerships that must form to support a comprehensive, campus-wide suicide-prevention strategy.

Language: en