In 15-Minute Focus: Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention, Dr. Melisa Marsh gives school counselors and educators a step-by-step primer on how to navigate the death of a student or staff member by suicide.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the second leading cause of death for individuals ages ten to thirty-four. This statistic underscores the impact suicide can have on our schools. It can shatter a school community and leave students and staff feeling helpless, angry, and confused. In this book, Marsh unpacks the stigma and data associated with suicide, and provides school counselors, educators, and administrators with ways to implement a suicide-safer community.

What you'll get:

• Specific language to use when talking about suicide
• Strategies for implementing suicide prevention, suicide intervention, and suicide postvention programs
• Research and data to help communicate risk factors
• Ways to support students in a virtual environment
• Over 20 pages of invaluable templates, including safety plans, email scripts, assessments, checklists, and more!

The death of a student or staff member by suicide is something no school wishes to navigate, but Marsh gives the tools needed to face these hard and challenging situations with understanding and hope.

In 15-Minute Focus: Depression: Signs and Strategies for Counselors, Educators, and Parents, Dr. Melisa Marsh provides a comprehensive look at depression and its effects on children and teenagers.

While depression is a common problem in our world today, it often goes unreported and untreated. And sadly, many youth believe they are alone in their pain. Children and teens may not know how to identify their troubling thoughts and emotions, so they need the adults in their lives to recognize their cries for help.

This book will equip counselors, educators, and family members with a detailed understanding of depression and offer tools for intervention so no student or peer goes unnoticed in their struggle.

In this book, you'll discover:

• Symptoms of depression
• Different types of depressive disorders
• How to identify depression versus sadness
• The connection between depression and other mental illnesses
• How school staff can support students with depression
• Successful management of depression

Each chapter includes a case study that illustrates an aspect of dealing with depression, along with questions to apply the book's principles in your own context. In addition, Dr. Marsh provides a comprehensive list of tools adults can use to support and improve the overall mental health of students, themselves, and peers.

Are you looking for proven tools to help you and your students develop effective stress-reduction strategies?

In a time of increasing change and uncertainty, the World Health Organization has declared stress the leading health epidemic of the 21st century. Stress and anxiety have become so prevalent - at home, at work, and in the classroom - that the effects are often debilitating. In light of this reality, it is as critical as ever to face stress head-on and bring tools and techniques to bear that provide much-needed relief and hope.

To help you, your students, and coworkers do just that, Dr. Melisa Marsh has created this workbook as a timely resource for educators.

Within these insight-packed pages, you'll find:

• A stress profile to help identify the root causes of stress, anxiety, and burnout
• Step-by-step guidance through the 5-Senses stress-reduction technique
• A tool to audit energy management and replace draining pursuits with life-giving ones
• Key questions to identify and live by core values and priorities, thus reducing stress
• Detailed techniques to improve breathing, muscle relaxation, and coping mechanisms
• Strategies and methods to understand and manage burnout

Filled with research-backed descriptions, engaging hands-on activities, and life-changing applications, this workbook will assist you in supporting students and coworkers as they develop strategies to reduce stress, manage energy, and tailor solutions to their specific challenges - both in the classroom and throughout their lives.