“It’s Awful When We Get It Wrong”: An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors’ Perspectives on Suicide

Lund, Emily M.; Schultz, Jared C.; Thomas, K. Bryn; Nadorff, Michael R.; Chowdhury, Dalia; Galbraith, Kate

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“…Counsellors' heavy workload leaves them little time for coping with suicidal students. The study also found that counsellors exposed to incidents of suicide had a lower sense of professional self-efficacy (Christianson & Everall, 2008;Lund et al, 2018). Carpenter (2018) pointed out that school counsellors who themselves experienced personal trauma and loss may be even more vulnerable when dealing with adolescents' suicide attempts.…”

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How school counsellors cope with suicide attempts among adolescents — A qualitative study in Israel

Levkovich

Vigdor

2020

J. Psychol. Couns. Sch.

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The aim of the study was to examine how school counsellors cope with suicide attempts among students in their schools. A qualitative phenomenological methodology was used. Participants included 24 Israeli high school counsellors aged 32–62. All interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analysed thematically. The findings indicate that counsellors find students’ suicide attempts difficult, disconcerting, painful and confusing to manage, and note the complex nature of their dealings with the adolescents, their families and the school administrators. Despite feeling insecure about their ability to provide help, the counsellors felt they were at the forefront of the treatment effort in the school environment. To cope with the responsibility and challenges, the counsellors relied mainly on informal sources of support. Implications for practice are discussed.

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How school counsellors cope with suicide attempts among adolescents — A qualitative study in Israel

Levkovich

Vigdor

2020

J. Psychol. Couns. Sch.

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“…Client suicidal potential and self‐harming behaviours are a confronting and challenging process that counsellors and psychotherapists will most likely experience more than once in their career (Lund et al, 2020; Wollersheim, 1974). Soon after counselling students embark on their first practicum during their university studies, they will likely be confronted with a client at risk of suicide (Binkley & Leibert, 2015; Mackelprang et al, 2014).…”

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Understanding the context of suicide in master's level counselling programmes in Australia

Howell

2023

Couns and Psychother Res

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The purpose of this study was to understand the context of suicide in master's level counselling courses in Australia. The sample comprised courses accredited by the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA). A mixed methods content analysis was used to identify the explicitness of suicide in these courses and identify themes that emerged during the analysis. The sample consisted of 405 units of study contained in 26 courses. Suicide was explicit in 23 units in 17 courses. Suicide content was overshadowed by cultural diversity, ethics, morality and philosophy, research and self‐awareness, which was explicit in all 26 courses.

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“…To better understand this, one should be equipped with on-line posts on suicide cases especially in social media platforms. Hence the need for more training especially to vocational rehabilitation counselors to enable them tackle the issue of suicide effectively (Lund, Schultz, et al., 2018). Arendt (2018)’s finding that the mass media reports on suicide may have given rise to high incidences of suicide is apt even though it was not tilted to on-line social media platforms.…”

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“… I Really Prepared to Take My Life …”: Dynamics, Instruments and Suicidal Thoughts Among Nigerian University Students Following Social Media Reported Suicides

Ekpechu

2020

Omega (Westport)

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This study examined the different dimensions and instruments used in committing suicide and how it gave rise to suicidal thoughts among Nigerian university students who had witnessed these suicide cases posted in social media platforms. Convenience sample of 30 students who had witnessed social media reported suicides were studied using focus group discussion. It was found that suicide a single person affair becomes a group affair through the power of its postings in social media platforms which generates different discussions on it. Students tend to have different suicidal thoughts following suicides they watched in social media platforms. These suicidal thoughts come in the form of high suicidal ideation, near suicidal ideation and no suicidal ideation. Use of sniper (a chemical used in killing insects) in committing suicide by students generated more thoughts of suicide especially when posted in social media platforms than other means of committing suicide.

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“It’s Awful When We Get It Wrong”: An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors’ Perspectives on Suicide

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

How school counsellors cope with suicide attempts among adolescents — A qualitative study in Israel

How school counsellors cope with suicide attempts among adolescents — A qualitative study in Israel

Understanding the context of suicide in master's level counselling programmes in Australia

“… I Really Prepared to Take My Life …”: Dynamics, Instruments and Suicidal Thoughts Among Nigerian University Students Following Social Media Reported Suicides

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