TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Adolescent help-seeking and the yellow ribbon suicide prevention program: an evaluation
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Freedenthal, Stacey L.
SP  - 628
EP  - 639
VL  - 40
IS  - 6
N2  - The Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program has gained national and international recognition for its school- and community-based activities. After the introduction of Yellow Ribbon to a Denver-area high school, staff and adolescents were surveyed to determine if help-seeking behavior had increased. Using a pre-post intervention design, staff at an experimental school and comparison school were surveyed about their experiences with student help-seeking. Additionally, 146 students at the experimental high school were surveyed. Staff did not report any increase in student help-seeking, and students' reports of help-seeking from 11 of 12 different types of helpers did not increase; the exception was help-seeking from a crisis hotline, which increased from 2.1% to 6.9%. Further research with larger, more inclusive samples is needed to determine whether Yellow Ribbon is effective in other locations.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/suli.2010.40.6.628
ID  - ref1
ER  -