Suicide Prevention Model Paper

I chose to construct a suicide prevention model that is aimed at training high school counselors and faculty. I have decided that an effective consultation model for this setting would be collaboration. A collaborative consultation can be defined as “an interactive process that enables people with diverse expertise to generate creative solutions to mutually defined problems” (Idol, 1995). The collaborative consultation model is very effective in creating solutions that singular team members were unable to produce individually. The goal of collaborative consultation is to focus on “rapport building, problem solving, and individual, group, or systemic-organizational capacity building to benefit an identified client or client population” (Kampwirth,

The purpose is to assist the student in dealing with the current situation and any related situations in the future more successfully. There are many ways that this can be accomplished, but first the counselor should attempt to identify any causes of self-injury behavior. Dr. Fred Cutter developed what is called the “Suicide Prevention Triangle”. This model is based on the idea of the fire prevention triangle, in that like fire, suicide cannot occur if one of the three aspects were removed. The three aspects that make up Cutter’s triangle are intensity of wish to die, kind and amount of planning, and degree of

Some of the categories within this aspect include preferred method and lethality, availability to method, prevention of rescue, and deliberate versus impulsive planning. It is important to learn if there is a history of suicide attempts, and also the method used to carry out the attempt. Cutter states that there are essentially two types of self-injurers. The first being people who are in the early life cycle of their suicidal careers, and the second being those who are more psychotic. The first type of people are less committed to one method and “tend to prefer two or more less lethal methods, such as wrist cutting and abuse of prescription drugs, often utilized as gestures or threats” (Cutter, 1999). The second type of person “may act impulsively with methods of availability which provide more lethal opportunities for self-injury such as jumping or hanging” (Cutter, 1999). A major preventative strategy for both types requires attention to any underlying distress in their