"Signs of Suicide" shows promise as a middle school suicide prevention program

Elizabeth A Schilling1, Martha Lawless, Laurel Buchanan

  • 1Center for Public Health and Health Policy, The University of Connecticut Health Center, East Hartford, CT, USA.

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