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The Pain Of Helping: Crisis Response Teams Experiences With College Student Suicide, Audra E. Dowling
The Pain Of Helping: Crisis Response Teams Experiences With College Student Suicide, Audra E. Dowling
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This qualitative multicase study explores the lived experiences of seven higher education professionals who serve or have served on a crisis response team at the time of a college student suicide. It asks the following research question: How has a college student suicide impacted the individual psychological needs (safety, trust, esteem, intimacy, control) of those serving on a crisis response team? Using constructivist self-development theory (McCann & Pearlman, 1990) as a lens, psychological needs have been analyzed as fulfilled needs or distorted needs across two interviews and three journaling prompts to assess the impact on seven participants in this qualitative …