(Answered) : Suicide Prevention 2

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Assignment 2: Suicide Prevention

Suicide prevention is an important responsibility for all correctional workers, especially the forensic mental health professional. Suicide prevention efforts include accurate assessment and effective intervention with offenders. In addition, they include the training of all correctional workers as potential “assessors” of suicide risk among offenders in a correctional setting.

Tasks:

Assume you are the forensic mental health expert in a prison. You have been asked to conduct training with various supervisors on the topic of suicide prevention.

Using at least three scholarly resources from the professional literature, research the prevalence of suicide in correctional institutions and the methods of