How can students & families tell how well a university is doing on suicide safety?
Does it talk credibly about a mentally healthy campus?
Check student/staff surveys: does experience match rhetoric on bullying, disability, international students, management style?
Short 🧵 1/5
Does it talk credibly about a mentally healthy campus?
Check student/staff surveys: does experience match rhetoric on bullying, disability, international students, management style?
Short 🧵 1/5
Are all staff - academic & admin - trained in mental health & #suicideprevention?
So that if a student doesn’t hand in an essay, will they be seen as under-performing or will someone check they’re ok?
Is the physical environment safe?
2/5
So that if a student doesn’t hand in an essay, will they be seen as under-performing or will someone check they’re ok?
Is the physical environment safe?
2/5
Is mental health promoted, on exam stress, drugs & alcohol, financial worries & loneliness?
Is it clear how to get help if anxious or distressed - starting with practical advice, then counselling & if needed, referral to NHS?
3/5
Is it clear how to get help if anxious or distressed - starting with practical advice, then counselling & if needed, referral to NHS?
3/5
Does the university learn when a tragedy occurs, when someone takes their own life?
Not just the oblique “lessons learned” but actual change.
Is it supportive of families? Of students affected? Is it open with coroners & the media?
4/5
Not just the oblique “lessons learned” but actual change.
Is it supportive of families? Of students affected? Is it open with coroners & the media?
4/5
Universities are making progress on mental health.
Being a student is exciting but for some, disillusioning & lonely.
Suicide doesn’t have a single cause or solution.
But - and this is important - student suicide numbers have recently fallen. Prevention is possible.
5/5
Being a student is exciting but for some, disillusioning & lonely.
Suicide doesn’t have a single cause or solution.
But - and this is important - student suicide numbers have recently fallen. Prevention is possible.
5/5
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