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...wake of three apparent suicides at Cornell University in the past six weeks, members of the mental health community at Harvard reaffirmed their commitment to providing support for students at risk but disagreed on the need to take immediate steps in response...
...It’s honestly a very scary phenomenon,” said Paul J. Barreira, director of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling for University Health Services. “I think it only proves the point that you can have a terrific suicide prevention program and a terrific campaign to care for the community, but this phenomenon can happen anyway...
...total of six students have committed suicide at Cornell this year, while national statistics would predict about two suicides annually within Cornell’s student population of 20,000, according to comments made by Cornell Mental Health Initiatives Director Timothy Marchell to The New York Times. Between 2000 and 2009, though, the number of suicides at Cornell was at or below the national average...
Nonetheless, Barreira added that he plans to coordinate with residential life staff and student mental health groups in order to ensure that everyone is “more alert and more mindful” in the aftermath of the Cornell suicides. He also said that UHS will continue its efforts to educate students about how to help their depressed peers, and will be distributing its biennial health assessment survey starting today...
...Student Mental Health Liaisons—a group that coordinates with UHS and House wellness tutors to educate students about mental health resources—will likely discuss the Cornell suicides at its next meeting, said Lianna E. G. Karp ’10, one of its members. Additionally, the group may consider holding a Suicide Gatekeeper training event to teach students how to recognize signs of life-threatening depression in the coming weeks, Karp said...