Abstract
This paper analyzes the response to the outbreak of student suicides at Southeast Polk High School in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, during the 2008-09 school year, by applying the theoretical framework of the communication and community resilience approach to crisis management. The key strategies of the communication and resilience framework were applied to assess the efforts of the school district to adapt and build resilience. It was identified that the school district succeeded in implementing two out of the five recommended strategies. The framework highlighted the need to consider suicide as a crisis and to employ all the strategies in order to work toward community resilience.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
47
Issue
2
First Page
223
Last Page
232
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Wells, Molly D.
(2015)
"Southeast Polk High School's Suicide Culture: Analysis of Communication and Community Resilience Strategies,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 47:
No.
2, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol47/iss2/7
Copyright
©2015 Iowa Communication Association
