Journal article
Preparing for the Inevitable: Training Social Workers to Cope with Client Suicide
Journal of teaching in social work, Vol.28(1-2), pp.1-18
05/30/2008
DOI: 10.1080/08841230802178821
Abstract
Little attention has been given to educating and training social work students and professionals about working with suicidal clients. This article summarizes the literature on client suicide and the professional social worker, as well as presents results from a mixed methods study, which utilized both qualitative and quantitative data collected from a national study on client suicide among social workers. The results indicate that 55% of social workers will experience at least one client suicide attempt and 31% will experience a client suicide completion during the course of their career. Additionally, less than 50% of the social workers surveyed received previous training or education about client suicide in their MSW programs. Suggestions from social workers for the content of training classes on client suicide are included. Implications for practice and research are also discussed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Preparing for the Inevitable: Training Social Workers to Cope with Client Suicide
- Creators
- Sara Sanders - University of IowaJodi M. Jacobson - University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyLaura Ting - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of teaching in social work, Vol.28(1-2), pp.1-18
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- DOI
- 10.1080/08841230802178821
- ISSN
- 0884-1233
- eISSN
- 1540-7349
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/30/2008
- Academic Unit
- Liberal Arts and Science Admin; Social Work
- Record Identifier
- 9984307153202771
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