ERIC Number: EJ966096
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Dec
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Adolescent Help-Seeking and the Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program: An Evaluation
Freedenthal, Stacey
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, v40 n6 p628-639 Dec 2010
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 prepost 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. (Contains 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Experimental Schools, Prevention, Suicide, Help Seeking, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, High Schools, Adolescents, Surveys, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Pretests Posttests, Comparative Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Colorado
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