School-Based Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention in Yamagata, Japan: A Sustainable Model of Help-seeking Behavior Education

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International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practices Volume 12 (2025), Article ID 12:IJNCP-418, 3 Pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2394-4978/2025/418

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School-Based Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention in Yamagata, Japan: A Sustainable Model of Help-seeking Behavior Education

Hiroaki Ambo

Department of Nursing, Yamagata Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Yamagata, 990-2212, Japan

Corresponding Author Details: Prof. Hiroaki Ambo, Department of Nursing, Yamagata Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Yamagata, 990-2212, Japan

Received: 13 June 2025; Accepted: 27 June 2025; Published: 28 June 2025

Citation: Ambo H (2025) School-Based Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention in Yamagata, Japan: A Sustainable Model of Help-seeking Behavior Education. Int J Nurs Clin Pract 12: 418. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2394-4978/2025/418

Copyright: © 2025 Ambo. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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