By Ruwan Laknath JayakodyThe provision of life skills training via the formal education curriculum in schools can be a preventive strategy with regard to problems including that of self harm among adolescents, a health academic noted. According to L. Schlebusch’s “Suicide prevention: A proposed national strategy for South Africa”, individuals with a higher risk for suicide are often poor at problem solving skills and in dealing with interpersonal problems. LaFromboise and B. Howard-Pitney found in “The Zuni life skills development curriculum: Description and evaluation of a suicide prevention programme” that life skills training had improved the negative cognitive affective states and hopelessness, which are the major mediating variables associated with suicide. Pike, and J.R. Herting’s “Promoting care: including parents in youth suicide prevention”, C. Katz, S.L. Katz, C. Isaak, T. Tilston-Jones, J. Sareen, and the Swampy Cree Suicide Prevention Team’s “A systematic review of school based suicide prevention programmes”, D. Wasserman, C.W.

Source: The Nation June 15, 2021 18:00 UTC