Counselors Care (CARE)

An Effective Practice

Description

Counselors Care (CARE) is a school-based intervention for high-school students at risk for suicide. CARE is a two-part, four-hour program, beginning with a personalized computer-assisted assessment of risk and protective factors, and followed by a brief counseling intervention designed to enhance a youth's personal resources and social network connections.

Goal / Mission

The goal of this program is to prevent suicide and reduce depression among high-school students.

Results / Accomplishments

The evaluations of CARE found that the program resulted in faster rates of decline in risk factors for suicide and lower levels of depression and hopelessness among participants when compared with a usual-care control group. In addition, the treatment group resulted in lower levels of anxiety and anger for female students. Although studies have been limited to the Pacific Northwest, the CARE interventions were evaluated in schools with diverse ethnic populations.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
University of Washington
Primary Contact
Leona L. Eggert, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Psychosocial & Community Health
School of Nursing
University of Washington
Box 358732
Seattle, WA 98195-8732
(425) 861-1177
eggert@u.washington.edu
http://www.son.washington.edu/departments/pch/ry
Topics
Health / Mental Health & Mental Disorders
Health / Adolescent Health
Organization(s)
University of Washington
Source
Promising Practices Network
Date of publication
Feb 2007
Location
Seattle, WA
For more details
http://www.promisingpractices.net/program.asp?prog...
Target Audience
Teens

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An Effective Practice meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes at a minimum: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program implementation steps, and outcomes that have demonstrated program success and/or promise in achieving the program goal in one or more localities.
  2. The results from an evaluation of the program include quantitative measures of improvement in outcome of interest (i.e. increase in voter registration, not just delivery of voter registration drive) and/ or the outcome measure is increased or improved compared to the baseline measurement or the control group but the difference is not statistically significant.