Dev. of a Suicide Prevention Training Curr f/Justice Sys Gatekeepers

这项提议规定加强第一阶段核心课程，以包括信息 关于特定的社会人口群体(妇女、少数群体、老年人、青少年)，与 无数的法律实践环境(家庭暴力)，以及那些留下痛苦和觉醒的自杀事件 社区和家庭的痛苦，谋杀和自杀。此外，课程将涉及 自杀和心理健康意识的伦理冲突向律师展示了他们的案件 商议。因此，课程将针对律师和行政法办事员(作为 也接触到法官的第二手段)和刑事和民事法院的审前服务工作人员 系统。最终的课程将被打包成教师指导的继续法律 教育(CLE)计划和基于网络的CLE计划。由于CLE积分是 41个州的所有新的和有经验的律师，包括道德和道德方面的强制性学分 在许多州的专业主题领域，这种商业机制有可能达到 在国家一级通过多种模式瞄准目标人群。阶段参与者的目标 II课程包括以下能力： 认识到自杀风险的症状和行为指标 根据这一知识，准确地识别自杀高危个体，应用行为和情景指标来帮助做出这一决定 适当和明智地转介给合格的精神卫生人员，以筛查和评估那些被认定为有自杀风险的人 了解在面对可能的自杀风险时存在的伦理问题 认识到在处理家庭暴力和谋杀-自杀等特殊情况时的其他需要和考虑 对增强的核心课程及其模块组成部分进行严格的研究评估， 将进行2次Beta-1和6次Beta-2国家多地点试点试验。对于这两组 在测试中，制定了评估计划，以评估培训的影响和效果， 选择方法，以及培训参与者组成的多样性。此外, 最后的课程将被整合到法学院的现有课程中，并进行学习转移 还将在三个考点进行评估，类似于Beta测试评估。法律 学校实施和评估是新兴专业人员在 刑事和民事法院系统可在进入 法院系统。 建设社区能力，以进一步评估此类预防工作的成效 第二阶段工作的范围，这项提议还包括以社区为基础的参与性 研究能力战略，利用已有的NIMH资助的计划来增强 关注自杀问题的初级研究人员的质量和数量。这笔R25赠款将致力于 两家自杀研究机构为社区主要利益攸关方提供机会 与院士合作，评估自杀预防在其整个社区的影响 广泛的非传统心理健康战略。 拟议的第二阶段项目有可能对国家产生重大影响。 该项目对公共卫生产生重大影响的潜力是至关重要的，其 有潜力成为创建、促进和整合成功社区的工具 合伙企业。

This proposal provides for an enhancement of the Phase I core curriculum to include information on specific sociodemographic groups (women, minorities, elders, juveniles), issues relevant to myriad legal practice settings (domestic violence), and those suicides which leave a wake of pain and suffering for communities and families, murder-suicides. Furthermore, the curriculum will address the ethical conflicts suicide and mental health awareness presents attorneys in their case deliberations. As such, the curriculum will target attorneys and administrative law clerks (as a secondary means of also reaching judges) and pretrial services staff in the criminal and civil court systems. The final curriculum will be packaged into both an instructor-led continuing legal education (CLE) program and a web-based CLE program. Since CLE credits are a requirement of all new and experienced attorneys in 41 states, including mandatory credits in the ethics and professionalism topic area in many states, this commercial mechanism has the potential to reach the target population through multiple modalities at a national level. Goals for participants in the Phase II curriculum include the ability to: Recognize the symptomatic and behavioral indicators of suicide risk Accurately identify individuals "at-risk" for suicide based on this knowledge, applying behavioraland situational indicators to assist in making this determination Make appropriate and judicious referrals to qualified mental health personnel for screening andassessment of those individuals identified as being "at-risk" for suicide Understand the ethical issues present when confronted with possible suicide risk Recognize additional needs and considerations when dealing with special situations such as domestic violence and murder-suicide A rigorous research evaluation of the enhanced core curriculum and its modular components, including two Beta-1 and six Beta-2 national multi-site pilot tests, will be conducted. For both sets of tests, evaluation plans have been developed to assess the impact and effectiveness of the training, selection methodology, and diversity within the composition of training participants. In addition, the final curriculum will be integrated into existing curricula in law schools and a learning transfer evaluation at three test sites, similar to the Beta Test evaluation, will also be conducted. The law school implementation and evaluation is included as a method by which emerging professionals in the criminal and civil court systems may be targeted for early training prior to their entry into the court system. To build community capacity to further evaluate the effectiveness of such prevention efforts beyond the scope of the Phase II effort, this proposal also includes a community-based participatory research capacity strategy that piggy-backs on an already existing NIMH-funded initiative to enhance the quality and number of junior research faculty who focus on suicide. This R25 grant will dedicate two suicide research institutes to providing an opportunity for key community stakeholders to partner with academicians to assess the impact of suicide prevention in their communities across broad nontraditional mental health strategies. The proposed Phase II project is one that has the potential for having a significant national impact. The potential for this project to have a significant impact on public health is paramount, as is its potential to act as a vehicle for creating, facilitating and integrating successful community partnerships .