VEM SKA TA ANSVAR FÖR DÖDEN? En kvalitativ studie om skolkuratorers syn på skolans roll i det suicidpreventiva arbetet.

Abstract

The aim of the study is to examine what school counselors opine of high schools’ part in the work with youth suicide prevention. The material consisted of interviews with six high school counselors in Gothenburg. We used a qualitative method and analysed the empirical material with an interview analysis which was characterized by general analytical approaches where various analytical methods where used. The theorizing was done with use of system theory, social interaction theory and theories of cooperation to conceptualize and create an explanation of the empirical material. Our study implicated the range of high school counselors different perceptions of suicide prevention as a phenomenon, which presents as different strategies in the result section. This invigorate the phenomenons complexity. The strategies we found is: the importance of being a good school, the social environments significance, the importance of information, counselors accessibility and to lower the threshold, the ability to identify students who suffers and cooperation. Our results showed that a more reasonable role and part for high schools in the work with suicide prevention is to have an health promoting approach, but that it has to be improved. To make this possible, the health promoting work needs to be given more importance and priority than what it gets today. To take advantage of the school as an arena for the health promoting work is the optimal way to reach adolescents, and plays an important part to reach the goal of reducing the quantity of suicide cases.