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. 2017 Oct 4;4(4):e40. doi: 10.2196/mental.7847

Table 1.

Structure of sessions.

Session Description
1 Meet participants and introduce project;

Discuss goals for the program and set boundaries; and

Show some examples of social media being used for suicide prevention.
2 Provide psychoeducation about mental health and suicide, including information about:
  • the prevalence of mental health problems, including depression and anxiety, and suicide and suicidal behavior;

  • signs and symptoms of mental health problems; and

  • warning signs and risk factors for suicide.

3 Provide psychoeducation about safe ways of communicating about suicide based on resources such as the Mindframe media guidelines [9]; and

Provide psychoeducation about how to help a friend who might be thinking about suicide based on resources from mental health organizations such as SANE, headspace, and beyondblue.
4 Brainstorm with students about ideas for their media messages and decide on concepts; and

Provide education about designing and creating multimedia content.
5-7 Development of media messages.
8 Presentation day for media messages; and

Participants complete questionnaires.