School Counselors and Unified Educator–Counselor Identity: A Data-Informed Approach to Suicide Prevention

Abstract

School counselors are vital in crisis prevention and intervention. In this article, we discuss the unified educator–counselor identity as it informs the suicide prevention work of school counselors, illustrated with a data-based case example from a quantitative study based in one high school. This case example includes a decision tree to show how school counselors can use data to understand the suicide prevention and intervention needs of a diverse student body in their own schools.

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data-driven decision making decision tree educator–counselor identity school counselor identity suicide prevention

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