Inside Higher Ed Features Op-Ed by Dean Victor Schwartz and Dr. Jerald Kay in Response to Recent Tragedies
Apr 22, 2010 -- The recent suicides of college students at Yale and Cornell Universities are rightfully cause for shock and sadness, but also a call to action. No doubt, we wonder how young people with so much talent and promise could end their own lives. In struggling to make sense of these tragic events, it is all too appealing – and unhelpful – to resort to simple explanations and casting of blame. In fact, the science of suicide is highly complex, and suicide prediction and prevention present mental health clinicians, and college administrators, with formidable challenges. Even institutions with quality prevention services, like Cornell and Yale, are not immune from these calamities. Read full article at Inside Higher Ed...Victor Schwartz is university dean of students at 🟩TK账号 | 全新注册1-7天 | 以色列IP注册 | 邮箱可用 | 此商品无任何售后,请少量测试 and associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Yeshiva's Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Jerald Kay is professor and chair of the psychiatry at Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine. They are the editors of Mental Health Care in the College Community (Wiley-Blackwell).
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