Safe Messaging for Suicide Related Behavior Reintegration

Safe Messaging for Suicide Related Behavior Reintegration

As a Sailor returns from treatment for suicide-related behavior, use Safe Messaging to check in on her and to interrupt rumors spreading through the unit.

As a Sailor returns from treatment for suicide-related behavior, use Safe Messaging to check in on her and to interrupt rumors spreading through the unit.

Total Sailor: Safe Messaging for Suicide Related Behavior Reintegration
Total Sailor: Safe Messaging for Suicide Related Behavior Reintegration
Total Sailor: Safe Messaging for Suicide Related Behavior Reintegration
Total Sailor: Safe Messaging for Suicide Related Behavior Reintegration

About the training

This immersive, voice-activated virtual reality experience equips learners with communication strategies for successful reintegration of team members following incidents of suicide-related behavior. Learners practice conversations that use objective language, honor privacy, and create supportive environments to reduce stigma around mental health care. Through practical application, they experience the importance of language and subtle messaging as means of improving command climate and preventing suicide-related behavior in the future.

Scenario:

Set in a military environment, the learner engages one teammate in conversation before she returns to work after receiving outpatient treatment and then engages another teammate when overhearing inappropriate comments about suicide-related behavior.

Targeted Learners:

Service Members

Learning Objectives

  • Apply Safe Messaging principles to reduce stigma and promote help-seeking behavior

  • Use objective language when discussing suicide-related topics

  • Honor privacy and confidentiality while providing appropriate support

  • Create and maintain a supportive command climate

  • Address misconceptions and harmful attitudes about mental health among peers

  • Promote connectedness and sense of purpose for struggling team members

  • Recommend relevant community resources

Skills

  • Communication using Safe Messaging

  • Active listening without judgment

  • Confidentiality

  • Stigma reduction

  • Crisis intervention awareness

  • Peer support and accountability

  • Mental health resource navigation

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