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Issues in the Evaluation of Youth Suicide Prevention Initiatives

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Suicide Science

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The field of school-based youth suicide prevention is currently characterized by scatteredencouraging evaluations of conceptually grounded universal and indicated programs. Larger scale, long-termevaluations that systematically assess implementation as well as proximal and distal outcomes of adequately disseminated programs are needed. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Surgeon General have made suicide prevention a priority. A recent national conferencebrought together national researchers and produced reviews of the field and a draft of a national research agenda for suicide prevention that included schoolbased youth suicide prevention programs. It is hoped that these developments will provide resources for researchers to expand the current evaluations to a more systematic empirical base for youth suicide prevention efforts.

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Kalafat, J. (2002). Issues in the Evaluation of Youth Suicide Prevention Initiatives. In: Suicide Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47233-3_14

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