In Japan, school teachers have been quite reluctant about suicide prevention. Moral education as a subject began recently, but suicide prevention is not included. In this article, we offered some suggestions to improve this situation by enhancing school teachers' mental health literacy. The features of school teacher's occupational culture were also discussed.
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To Enhance School Teachers' Mental Health Literacy: Approaches and Suggestions from the Viewpoints of Teacher Education and the Recent Development of Moral Education in Japan
Department of Human Development and Education, Hyogo University of Teacher Education Graduate School of School of Education
Psychiatria et Neurologia Japonica
121: 957-964, 2019
＜Keywords：suicide prevention, occupational culture, mutual penetration＞
