Fifteen-year-old Nathan Bruno, a student at Portsmouth (Rhode Island) High School, committed suicide on February 7, 2018. The Portsmouth School Committee commissioned an independent investigation by an attorney, whose report was released in June 2019. A newspaper article provides an excellent, detailed summary of the 63-page report. I recommend it to any reader wants a clear picture of the chain of events that led to Na
A comprehensive suicide prevention program for schools has three components: prevention, intervention, and postvention. My posts about the first two are at https://www.videntpartners.com/blog/2023/youth-suicide-prevention-and-competent-school-community and https://www.videntpartners.com/blog/2023/suicide-intervention-schools. Postvention refers to responding or being prepared to respond to suicid
Barry N. Feldman, Ph.D., LICSW, is a nationally recognized educator, trainer, researcher, and clinical expert in the field of suicide intervention and prevention. He specializes in suicide-related training, critical incident response, and crisis stabilization services for schools, military, law enforcement, emergency medical responders, healthcare providers, veterinary medical practitioners, and other professionals.
We are pleased to announce that Barry N. Feldman, PhD has joined our panel of experts. Dr. Feldman is a nationally recognized educator, trainer, researcher, and clinical expert in the field of suicide intervention and prevention. He specializes in suicide-related training, critical incident response, and crisis stabilization services for schools, military, law enforcement, emergency medical responders, healthcare providers, veterinary medical practitioners, and other professionals.
