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School-Wide Staff and Faculty Training in Suicide Risk Awareness: Successes and Challenges

  1. Elaine Walsh PhD, RN Associate Professor1,*,
  2. Carole Hooven PhD Research Assistant Professor1,
  3. Barbara Kronick LCSW Director2

Article first published online: 11 OCT 2012

DOI: 10.1111/jcap.12011

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Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing

Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing

Volume 26, Issue 1, pages 53–61, February 2013

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Walsh, E., Hooven, C. and Kronick, B. (2013), School-Wide Staff and Faculty Training in Suicide Risk Awareness: Successes and Challenges. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, 26: 53–61. doi: 10.1111/jcap.12011

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  1. 1

    Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Program, Psychosocial and Community Health, University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, WA, USA

  2. 2

    Integrated Support Services, Sacramento City Unified School District, Sacramento, CA, USA

* Author contact:
emwalsh@uw.edu, with a copy to the Editor: kathleen_r_delaney@rush.edu

  1. This research was supported by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, grant number 5R21HD058164.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 27 JAN 2013
  2. Article first published online: 11 OCT 2012

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  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute. Grant Number: 5R21HD058164

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