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UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
Marine Corps Suicide Prevention Program
2011 DoD/VA Annual Suicide Prevention Conference -
Tailoring Awareness and Prevention Education
LCDR Andrew L. Martin, Psy.D. Suicide Prevention Program ManagerHeadquarters, Marine Corps (M&RA)
[email protected] 703-784-9542
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Ineffective Prevention Training
Feedback from previous training:
“It’s boring.”
“Suicide prevention training is a joke.”
“It’s a check in the box, then I forget it all.”
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Training is a Must
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Professional Training Consultation
“Include Marines in ALL phases of development”
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Marine Input
“Use Marine trainers”
“No PowerPoint or learning objective lists”
“Use realistic language”
“Use frontline supervisor approach”
“No one-way lectures”
“The trainer should give a personal story”
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Training Development Team
– Senior leadership– Strategic communication consultant– USMC officer– USMC senior enlisted advisor– Target audience members– Active duty psychologist– Training Analyst
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Peer or Frontline Supervisor Trainers
• Executive Force Preservation Board
• NCOs request leading role– “Just give us the right tools”
• Goal: Reduce suicide among junior Marines
• Self-sustaining regional master training teams
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Focus Groups
• Target audience members
• Cost-effective
• Consistent focus group membership
• Marines make good focus groups members
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“No PowerPoint”
• Dramatic movie– Engaging– Visual learning– Overwhelms impulse to ignore subject
• Discussion format
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Feedback on Video
• More information, more criticism• “Jarhead” and “Full Metal Jacket” • Harsh language• Trainer language
– Topical guidelines and skeleton script available– Trainer speaks in their own voice
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Trainer Self-Disclosure
• Trainers give personal examples– Personal experience with treatment– Experience aiding a fellow Marine
• Normalization
• Encourages help-seeking
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Documentary Testimony
• Survivors– Family members, unit members
• Unit members
• Leadership and chaplains
• Emotionally evocative
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Difficult Sustainment
• Master training team fidelity
• Video “Re-run” effect – “Refresher training” excerpts and discussion– Replace documentary footage with archived footage
• Initial training / refresher confusion in field
• Constantly update science
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Results
• “Outstanding,” “I learned something,” “I like the suicide training”
• Good reviews inadequate – effectiveness?– USUHS prelim results– MHAT data– Change in NCO suicide rate – NOT Jr. Marines
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Series Expansion
• Junior Marine (E1-E3) version– Same Sgt trainers– Reshoot dramatic video segments– Shorter format
• SNCO and officer modules– Trailer of Jr. Marine and NCO modules– Prevention basics– Evocative leader testimonials– Menu of discussion questions
• NCO II module
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Way Ahead
• Civilian employee and family member training
• Integrate suicide prevention training– Replace with resiliency training
• Merge with existing resilience training– Eliminate redundancy– Reduce training fatigue in force
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Questions