Suicide Prevention / Prevención del Suicidio

School counselors work to identify behavioral and social/emotional signs of suicide risk among their students and ensure prevention methods are in place. It is the school counselor’s ethical and moral responsibility to report suspected suicide risk to legal guardians and the appropriate authorities. In acknowledging suspected suicide risk, school counselors exercise reasonable care to protect students from unforeseeable harm (ASCA, 2022). 

School counselors support best practice in suicide prevention to reduce suicide risk in children and adolescents and are part of a collaborative team who respond when students are identified as at-risk for suicide. When becoming aware of a student considering suicide, school counselors assert their ethical and legal responsibility to report suspected suicide risk to parents/ guardians and the appropriate authorities (ASCA, 2020). / 

Los consejeros escolares trabajan para identificar signos conductuales y sociales/emocionales de riesgo de suicidio entre sus estudiantes y garantizar que existan métodos de prevención. Es responsabilidad ética y moral del consejero escolar informar la sospecha de riesgo de suicidio a los tutores legales y a las autoridades correspondientes. Al reconocer la sospecha de riesgo de suicidio, los consejeros escolares ejercen un cuidado razonable para proteger a los estudiantes de daños imprevisibles (ASCA, 2022). 

Los consejeros escolares apoyan las mejores prácticas en la prevención del suicidio para reducir el riesgo de suicidio en niños y adolescentes y son parte de un equipo colaborativo que responde cuando se identifica a los estudiantes en riesgo de suicidio. Cuando se enteran de que un estudiante está considerando suicidarse, los consejeros escolares afirman su responsabilidad ética y legal de informar la sospecha de riesgo de suicidio a los padres/tutores y a las autoridades correspondientes (ASCA, 2020).

ASCA Position: The School Counselor and Suicide Prevention/Awareness

ASCA Position: The School Counselor and Suicide Risk Assessment

• Having thoughts of suicide (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention)

• How to start (and continue!) a conversation about Mental Health (Talk Away the Dark)

• Teens and suicide: What parents should know (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention)

• Suicide Prevention & Counseling Center (Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services)

• Didi Hirsch Suicide Prevention Resources

• Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Glossary (988)

• Todos podemos prevenir el suicidio (988)