Description
Chapter One – Administrative and Organizational Issues
- Things to consider
- Recommended approach
- The SafeRoom
- Home visits
- Managing the Media
- Team – Administrative relationship
- Self – Care for Administrators
Chapter Two – Grief, Loss and Bereavement
- Tangible and intangible aspects of loss family systems and grief
- A”map” of the grieving process
- Common grief reactions
- Acute reactions
- Myths about grief
- Factors affecting the grief process
- Consequences of maladaptive coping strategies or avoidance
- Skills for those in the helping role
Chapter Three – Children in Grief
- Needs of youth in grief
- Determinants of the grieving process
- Common reactions to grief in youth
- Suggestions for school staff
- Thoughts about how kids grieve
- Recommendations for youth
Chapter Four – Suicide
- Understanding the causes
- Myths about suicide
- Suicidal personality traits, high risk groups, warning signs
- Tools for helping
- Screening, risk assessment
- Giving hope to a suicidal person
- Suicide watch
- Six things school need to have in place for suicide prevention
- Interventions in schools in the aftermath of suicide
Chapter Five – The Trauma Response in Individuals
- Victim-oriented intervention
- Biochemistry of the traumatic response
- Reactions to trauma
- Age related reactions in children
- Bibliography
Chapter Six – Intervention in the Aftermath of Trauma
- Management of the environment of trauma
- Interventions for individuals
- The Lovre Model of Intervention
- Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
- Victim-oriented intervention
- Crucial communication
- Special needs of children
- Implications for schools
- Secondary trauma
- Other treatment models
Chapter Seven – Violence Prevention
- Community risk factors
- Building risk factors
- Program risk factors
- Violence as an epidemic
- Examining your own situation’
- Programs with promise
- Resources
- Book list
Chapter Eight – SafeRooms
- Philosophy of the SafeRoom
- SafeRoom leadership and staff support
- Function of the SafeRoom
- The process
- The SafeRoom as the heart of crisis response
- Factors which help kids grieve
- Things to monitor in the SafeRoom
Chapter Nine – Unique Deaths and Challenging Circumstances
- Murder
- Missing children
- Medically frail/terminally ill students or staff
- When one child suffers a loss
- Thoughts about managing situations involving terminally ill staff members
- Additional thoughts about staff deaths
