| Abstract: | Schools often bring outside mental health consultants to provide postcrisis counseling after a suicide or another tragedy. This article describes a different role for consultants who specialize in this type of work: training school personnel to provide this valuable service themselves. It is argued that training school-based personnel to provide postcrisis counseling results in greater value to a school system than does direct service provision by an outside consultant. The author's experience as mental health consultant to a large urban/suburban school district's crisis team is used to illustrate various training techniques that can be used and benefits that can be derived from this type of consultation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
