• One hundred young Australians commit suicide every year.
• For every suicide there are 10 – 20 attempts.
• Too many suicidal and potentially suicidal young people are slipping through the existing youth suicide prevention safety net each year.

An effective early intervention process could reduce these statistics, but it must be one that teachers and youth workers can apply.

The problem is that the teachers and others who have the most contact with young people from a very early age to young adulthood do not always have the psychological training to recognise the early signs of suicidal tendencies.

The solution is to provide them with a proven resiliance building technique which can be universally applied across the group or class – one which has proved to be as effective in confronting peer group bullying as it is in improving the self-esteem of children and young people who may be suffering depression or feelings of worthlessness.

This technique, the “Self Acceptance Skills Method,” was developed by social worker and author Sabine Beecher, AASW(Acc), AARC, and has been proven over 30 years of successful implementation by teachers, social workers, counsellors, parole officers and parents. Find out more by downloading a PDF of a brief white paper by Sabine Beecher describing the technique and its potential to reduce youth suicide rates.

	Download PDF: Rethinking Youth Suicide - An effective early intervention process.

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