"I Have No More to Write": Writing as Trigger and Treatment for Suicidal Students. (3rd April 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Li, Fang
• Is Part Of: Mind, culture, and activity. Volume 25:Number 2(2018)
• Page Start: 164
• Page End: 176
• Publication Date: 2018-04-03
• Subjects: Cognition -- Periodicals; Cognition and culture -- Periodicals; 150
• DOI: 10.1080/10749039.2017.1351990
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1074-9039

Abstract

ABSTRACT: How can a concerned teacher spot suicidal tendencies in a student—before it is too late? I found a dramatic increase in a student's output when the student wrote about tragic works by the poet Oscar Wilde, and found that certain themes and symbols were both linked to and distinct from their counterparts in the works of verbal art. I propose a noninvasive, sustainable set of guidelines that might be used to detect students at risk and interventions that I believe to be not only good suicide prevention, but also sound pedagogy.