{"id":14452,"date":"2024-10-09T14:46:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T14:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14452"},"modified":"2024-10-09T15:25:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:25:23","slug":"does-your-school-use-suicide-prevention-software-we-want-to-hear-from-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14452","title":{"rendered":"Does Your School Use Suicide Prevention Software? We Want to Hear From You."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Concerned about anxiety and depression among students, some schools are monitoring what children type into their devices to detect suicidal thinking or self-harm.<\/p>\n

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In response to the youth mental health crisis<\/a>, many school districts are investing in software that monitors what students type on their school devices, alerting counselors if a child appears to be contemplating suicide or self-harm.<\/p>\n

Such tools \u2014 produced by companies like Gaggle, GoGuardian Beacon, Bark and Securly \u2014 can pick up what a child types into a Google search, or a school essay, or an email or text message to a friend. Some of these alerts may be false alarms, set off by innocuous research projects or offhand comments, but the most serious alerts may prompt calls to parents or even home visits by school staff members or law enforcement.<\/p>\n

I write about mental health for The New York Times, including the effects of social media use on children\u2019s brains<\/a> and algorithms that predict who is at risk for suicide<\/a>. I\u2019m interested in knowing more about how these monitoring tools are working in real life.<\/p>\n

If you are a student, parent, teacher or school administrator, I\u2019d like to hear about your experiences. Do you think these tools have saved lives? Do they help students who are anxious or depressed get the care they need? Are you concerned about students\u2019 privacy? Is there any cost to false positives?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I will read each submission and may use your contact information to follow up with you. I will not publish any details you share without contacting you and verifying your information.<\/p>\n

If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or go to <\/em>SpeakingOfSuicide.com\/resources<\/em><\/a> for a list of additional resources.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Share Your Experiences with Suicide Prevention Software<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n
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Concerned about anxiety and depression among students, some schools are monitoring what children type into their devices to detect suicidal thinking or self-harm.In response to the youth mental health crisis, many school districts are investing in software that monitors what students type on their school devices, alerting counselors if a child appears to be contemplating suicide or self-harm.Such tools \u2014 produced by companies like Gaggle, GoGuardian Beacon, Bark and Securly \u2014 can pick up what a child types into a Google search, or a school essay, or an email or text message to a friend. Some of these alerts may be false alarms, set off by innocuous research projects or offhand comments, but the most serious alerts may prompt calls to parents or even home visits by school staff members or law enforcement.I write about mental health for The New York Times, including the effects of social media use on children\u2019s brains and algorithms that predict who is at risk for suicide. I\u2019m interested in knowing more about how these monitoring tools are working in real life.If you are a student, parent, teacher or school administrator, I\u2019d like to hear about your experiences. Do you think these tools have saved lives? Do they help students who are anxious or depressed get the care they need? Are you concerned about students\u2019 privacy? Is there any cost to false positives?I will read each submission and may use your contact information to follow up with you. I will not publish any details you share without contacting you and verifying your information.If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com\/resources for a list of additional resources.Share Your Experiences with Suicide Prevention Software<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14454,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14455,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14452\/revisions\/14455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}