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Discusses the design of a workshop format designed to educate staff from youth residential centers in Adelaide, South Australia in the recognition and management of depressed and suicidal young people. Issues in suicidal behaviors; Assessment of mental health services; Evaluation of the workshop.

Part II. Discusses the customer service of the project Out of the Blues, a demonstration unit funded under the National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy. Problems when young people referred to a mental health service; How can therapists assess the presenting issues with an open mind; Why therapists need to be honest to their clients. INSET: Case Study.

Provides information on the project funded by the National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy called Out of the Blues to encourage clinicians to provide therapeutic services to young people. Goals of the project; Description of the case study which demonstrates how theory translates into daily one-to-one practice.

Part III. Discusses the clustering phenomenon in which publicity of a student suicide story appears to lead to imitation in a series of student suicides in Australia. Case histories and connections; Tendency of a student to copy the method of a reported suicide case. INSET: Suicide prevention support and resources..

Part II. Examines the effect of completed suicide by a student on another student in Australia. Case history of a 16-year-old female student who jumped from an eight-storey car park roof; Increase in suicides immediately after a suicide story has been published; Postvention strategies in schools following the suicide of a fellow student.

Part I. Examines the effect of completed suicide by a student on another student in Australia. Postvention strategies in the school following the suicide of a fellow student; Phenomenon of clustering in which suicides and attempted suicides appear to be linked to each other; Deliberate self-harm by students.