SUICIDPREVENTION I SKOLAN

Självmord bland unga är en vanlig dödsorsak. Studier visar att arbetet med suicidprevention har gett goda effekter för att hindra unga människor att ta sitt liv. Det övergripande syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur skolan tänker kring och arbetar med suicidprevention. En kvalitativ studie genomfördes där skolpersonal intervjuades. Semistrukturerade intervjuer användes och resultaten från dessa analyserades tillsammans med tidigare forskning kring suicidprevention. Det humanistiska perspektivet valdes som inspirationskälla, där fokus ligger på filosofen Carl Rogers och hans tankar kring att höra samt uppmärksamt lyssnande. Vidare har nationella riktlinjer gällande suicidprevention tagits med i analysen. Utifrån insamlad data framkommer det att skolpersonalen som intervjuats i denna studie arbetar klientcentrerat med omkringliggande faktorer som stress och ångest. Resultaten belyser även hur samverkan mellan skolpersonalen och andra aktörer ser ut samt att skolpersonalen anser att det behövs en ökning av resurser i form av personal samt utbildning gällande suicidprevention.The suicide rate among young people is a common cause of death. Studies have shown that suicide prevention is highly effective in preventing young people from taking their lives. The overall objective of this study was to examine how the school is thinking about suicide prevention. A qualitative study was conducted in which school staff was interviewed. Semi-structured interviews were used and the results were analyzed together with previous research about suicide prevention. The humanistic perspective was elected as a source of inspiration, where the focus has been on the philosopher Carl Rogers and his thoughts on hearing and perceptive listening. Furthermore has national guidelines regarding suicide prevention been included in the analysis. Based on collected data, it was found that the school staff that were interviewed worked with a client-centered perspective and surrounding factors such as stress and anxiety. The results also highlight how a collaboration between the school staff and other members of the community looks like, and that the school staff believe that there is a need for an increase of resources in terms of school staff and education about to suicide prevention