Are teachers of children and young adolescents responsive to suicide prevention training modules? Yes

Both before and after a 1-hour suicide prevention training module, 75 eleme ntary trachers-in-training read a 4-sentence vignette about a suicidal stud ent ("Pat"), then completed 8 questions about their responses. Compared wit h pretraining, at post-training these teachers were more likely to say that they would send or escort Pat to the counselor's office, use written or ve rbal no-suicide agreements, call Pat's parents, believe Pat to be serious r ather than simply seeking attention, and feel comfortable handling a simila r situation. Increased proactive attitudes after one hour of training imply that teachers would benefit from periodic suicide awareness and prevention training modules.