Local media gave extensive coverage to a traumatic incident in which a teacher doused herself with gasoline and lit herself on fire. The school administration assembled a mental health consulting team to reduce the risk of fire setting among the students. Their primary action was to ____

a. provide information to the students and their parents about what happened
b. provide students and staff with an opportunity to express and understand their reactions to the event
c. let students know that anyone caught with potentially lethal items would be suspended from school
d. assess which students and teachers needed referrals to local therapists


b

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