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Adolescent Suicide, 2008.
An analysis of adolescent suicide and a review at how treatment approaches such as integration cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and self-psychology can help detect and prevent suicides.
65,535 words (approx. 262.1 pages), 41 sources, APA, £ 172.95
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This research paper is an extensive, in-depth study covering almost every facet of adolescent suicide including its history, demographics, possible reasons and situations, and risk factors. The paper also explores and analyzes the self psychology and cognitive behavioral therapy approaches to deterring and preventing suicides.
Outline:
Introduction
History of Adolescent Suicide
Epidemiology of Adolescent Suicide
Risk Factors for Adolescent Suicide
Purpose of CRP
Self Psychology
Self Psychology and Suicide
Self Psychology and Family
Explanation of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
CBT Treatment Efficacy
CBT and Depression
CBT and Suicide
CBT and Family
Self Psychology Therapy
Self Psychology and Adolescents
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"As can be seen from the opinions and theories of these two different individuals, personality, how people use it, and what creates it is a debated topic that not all agree on. Some believe that personality changes over time, while others believe that personality is a genetically inherited trait that will remain basically the same throughout life, and some see the issue as not being as relevant as how the behaviors that are manifest by the personality of the individual make that individual feel. This does not mean that no changes in the way someone reacts to their environment will be seen as they grow older or that all behaviors are healthy, but that the basic way that someone looks at the world will not change that much over time . Those that believe that personality does not change do not feel that one can change who they genetically are, and therefore the traits that they were born with will always remain."
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Adolescent Suicide, 2004.
In-depth study of adolescent suicide among minorities.
18,086 words (approx. 72.3 pages), 94 sources, APA, £ 172.95
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This paper studies the research available on the problem of suicide among minority youth. The paper looks at the possible causes of suicide, methods of prevention, risk factors, characteristics of people with suicidal tendencies, gender differences in suicide attempts, and a host of other pertinent aspects. The paper also dispels some of the myths surrounding the causes of suicide and considers the question of whether suicide can, at times, be acceptable.
Discussion of Adolescent Suicide in General
Theories of Minority Suicide
Risk Factors
Economic Status
Undiagnosed Mental Health Issues
Time, Season, Weather, and Suicide
Protective Factors
Preventing Suicide
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"One innovative theory on the subject of minority suicide is that, the complexity of suicide from the logical point of view remains unsettled. Neither common sense nor clinical psychopathology has established a fundamental or even a firmly experiential solution. Freud had made a similar declaration in 1918 in abridging a psychoanalytic conference on suicide in Vienna. Theories of suicide have not undergone enough magnification. Maybe the most that has been accomplished in the last twenty years has been a more happy unification of the sociologic and psychoanalytic information, as well as, augmented recognition that suicide is more a number of conditions than a separate psychologic entity."
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Adolescent Suicide Prevention Methods, 2006.
A discussion on possible preventive measures that can be used to stop the rise of adolescent suicides.
2,042 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 44.95
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This paper discusses the issue of adolescent suicides (a statistic that has risen in the USA in recent years) and explains how identifying and treating adolescents at risk through psychology is essential to reducing the suicide rate. The paper goes on to list prevention methods that are available, citing several experts in this field.
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"Ten years ago the Center for Disease Control and Prevention did not report suicide rates among persons younger than 15 years of age, because of sparse numbers. During this last decade we have seen a dramatic increase in suicide among children. In the United States, suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among children between the ages of 10 and 15 and the third leading cause of death among youth between the ages of 15 and 25. Identifying and treating adolescents at risk through psychology is therefore essential to the reduction of teenage suicide. Adolescent suicide prevention methods include removing loaded weapons from the household, suicide prevention programs, communication among at-risk adolescents, discontinuing drug use and treating psychiatric illnesses that may lead to suicide."
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Adolescent Suicide, 2002.
A literature review of mental health problems with reference to adolescent suicides.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 19 sources, £ 42.95
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This paper evaluates the literature available on mental health problems with reference to adolescent suicides and the related research.
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Adolescent Suicide, 2005.
This paper discusses the prevention, intervention and postvention of adolescent suicide.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 8 sources, £ 49.95
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This paper explains that violence and suicide, as seen in the public school system, affects teenagers, often leaving emotional scars and mental health disorders such as post traumatic stress syndrome. The author points out that prevention of suicide is important in reducing the number of adolescents who attempt or commit suicide. The paper relates that intervention is helping a teenager, who is in the crisis of committing the act of suicide; whereas, postvention is addressing the problems and aftereffects of the trauma of a student having committed suicide.
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""Suicide is a leading cause of death in adolescents aged 15-19" (Mazza1997: 382). Violence and suicide seen in the public school system affects teenagers often leaving emotional scars and mental health disorders such as post-traumatic stress syndrome. Prevention of suicide is important in reducing the number of adolescents who attempt or commit suicide. Intervention is helping a teenager who is in the crisis of committing the act of suicide. Postvention is addressing the problems and aftereffects of the trauma of a student committing suicide. Studying the ways educational staff is involved with prevention, intervention, and postvention are important with the growing numbers of adolescents who are at high-risk of suicidal thoughts or intentions. Knowing the statistics and background information about adolescent suicide is important in deciding what methods should be used to reduce the problem."
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Adolescent Depression and Suicide, 2005.
A discussion of various forms of teenage depression and resulting suicide.
4,878 words (approx. 19.5 pages), 16 sources, MLA, £ 86.95
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This paper examines why it is important to look at the problem of adolescent depression and suicide from the perspective of the different kinds of disorders that cause it. The writer claims that there is a need to study the ways that these disorders can be managed so that the depression can be reduced and the risk of suicide lessened. In order to do that, the paper examines major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, and bipolar disorder. It also includes a literature review that deals with treatment, including various approaches that are being used or have been used in the past to treat depression and the risk of suicide in the adolescent population. Suicide also has a section devoted to it, dealing with the various risk factors and why adolescents choose to take their own lives. Prevention is also discussed, and the usefulness of the research findings are dealt with and tied into the recommendations that will have to be made for the future of this issue.
Introduction
Types of Mood Disorders
Major Depressive Disorder
Risk Factors in Major Depression
Dysthymic Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Literature Review - Treatment of Mood Disorders
Validity and Reliability of Studies
Psychodynamic Approaches
Behavioral Approaches
Biological Approaches
Antidepressant Drugs
Drug Treatment for Bipolar Disorder
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Depression
Suicide
Why do Children and Adolescents Commit Suicide?
Who Commits Suicide?
Risk Factors for Suicide
How can Children/Adolescent Suicide be Prevented?
Usefulness in the Field of Social Work
How Useful are the Research Findings?
How Will These Findings Make a Difference for Practitioners?
Conclusion and Recommendations for Future Research
Works Cited
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"The different types of mood disorders are one of the most important things that should be discussed. These various mood disorders can all lead to depression. However, since depression can be caused by several things, it is vital that there is an understanding about the mood disorders, what they are, and what they mean for treatment options where adolescents are concerned. The first type of mood disorder is major depressive disorder. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is widely utilized to determine whether an individual may have major depressive disorder, and whether they have experienced a major depressive episode. An episode such as this can be indicated by various things, but generally it must have at least five of the following characteristics for two weeks or more: depressed mood; loss of interest or pleasure; significant weight or appetite change; insomnia or hypersomnia; psychomotor agitation or retardation; fatigue or loss of energy; feelings of inappropriate guilt or worthlessness; diminished ability to think or concentrate; and/or recurrent thoughts or death or suicide (Stanard, 2000)."
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Adolescent Suicide, 2002.
This paper discusses the epidemic of teenage suicide in the United States and the problems of prevention.
1,370 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 31.95
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This paper states that the problem of preventing adolescent suicide is the difficulty developing a risk factor model or profile to predict which adolescents are at risk for suicide. The author feels that more research needs to be done to help create such a risk factor model. The paper recommends that the intervention of family and friends can cause a dramatic decrease in the numbers of adolescent who attempt suicide.
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"The general idea of a teenage candidate for suicide is usually the loner type who has few friends, not a great social life, listens to a certain type of music, like Marilyn Manson for example, and is a very introverted person (Sanchez 352). This is not always the case however. There are always the stories of the popular kid in class, who was the captain of the football team, on the honor roll, and got into a great college, and then one day he is in the newspaper because he hung himself off a bridge."
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Adolescent Depression And Suicide, 2002.
Summarizes possible causes of depression and teenage suicide.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, £ 21.95
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Summarizes possible causes of depression and teenage suicide. Risk factors identified by psychologists and clinicians. External contributors (gender, birth order, substance abuse, social pressure, unstable families, conduct disorder). Internal contributors (hopelessness, coping skill deficits). Negative outcomes.; academic problems. Need to develop prevention tools. Paper contains many quotations.
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"INTRODUCTION
Depression has become a multi-million dollar industry. Mainstream daily life offers many stressful life events that are compounded by external stimuli such as the media. Too often, adolescents have received blame for acting out rather than receiving focus for reacting within. "The self is a multi-faceted dynamic entity that is involved in the construction of meaning, mediating and regulating emotions and motivating actions" (Orbach, Mikulincer, Stein, & Cohen, 1998, p. 435). With teenage suicide purported to be epidemic and rising, it is essential that the adolescent "self" be examined so preventive tools may be exacted and implemented. "Adolescent depression has also been shown to predict a variety of negative outcomes, including: academic problems, marital difficulties, delinquency ..."
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Adolescent Suicide and the Media, 1990.
This paper discusses theories on the impact of filmic and televised violence on teenage suicide.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 9 sources, £ 27.95
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"Suicide and suicidal attempts are, contrary to popular wisdom, quite frequent in childhood and adolescence. Even in the 1970s, suicidal death was shown to be one of the fastest growing adolescent problems, ranking fourth as the leading cause of death in the fifteen.to nineteen.year age group. This view is echoed in the more current literature in the field, which also emphasizes that 59 to 71 percent of surveyed adolescents believe suicide to be a potential for most within that age group. Similarly, attitudes toward death within the fabric of American society have significantly changed in post World.War II society, primarily because of the pervasive influence of television and the rapid rise in the importance of the media. Prior to the advent of the media age, most Americans lived in smaller, more tightly knit ... "
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Drug Use and Adolescent Suicide, 1995.
This paper examines the relationship between teenagers suicide and their drug consumption: Incidence, connections, abuse, at-risk teenagers, family dysfunction, self-esteem and past and future research.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 15 sources, £ 32.95
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"This research examines the relationship between suicide by teenagers and drug consumption by teenagers. The term "drugs" includes illegal street narcotics and alcohol. The term "teenage" refers to 15-19 year olds. The suicide rate for 15-19 year olds is 10.2 persons per 100,000 population--18.2 for white males, the highest in this age group, and 2.1 for black females, the lowest in this age group. For all age groups, the suicide rate in the United States is 12.8 persons per 100,000 population. Thus, suicide among white male teenagers is a significant social problem. In numbers of deaths, as opposed to rates per 100,000 population, somewhat less than 3,000 persons among the 15-19 year olds commit suicide each year. As a leading cause of ... "
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Drugs and Adolescent Suicide, 1994.
A look at the usefulness of labeling and control theories in understanding teen suicide, drug use vs. abuse, social pressures and myths.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 8 sources, £ 66.95
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"Adolescents who engage in substance abuse have a significantly increased rate of self-inflicted death, and there is a close relationship between substance misuse patterns and the number and severity of suicide attempts. In addition, youth identified because of their suicidal behavior frequently use and abuse drugs and alcohol.
It does not follow, however, that a cause and effect relationship exists between drug use and suicide. In fact, the recreational use of drugs is not to be confused with the abuse of drugs-suicide relationship. In fact, the issue of drug use as an individual problem may be less relevant to suicidal behavior than larger, external social forces impacting the individual.
An examination of the quantity of drug usage, methods of suicide attempt, reasons for suicide, and methods of counseling will be examined as they pertain to suicidal youth. The drug-suicide connection will be examined in light of views placing more emphasis on social, rather than psychological..."
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Adolescent Suicides, 2002.
A literature review analysis of mental health problems with reference to adolescent suicides.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 19 sources, £ 30.95
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This paper evaluates the literature available on mental health problems with reference to adolescent suicides and the related research.
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Adolescent Suicides, 2002.
The paper discusses the major causes of adolescent suicides in America today.
2,280 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 48.95
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The paper shows that in the United States the suicide rate among teenagers has tripled in the last 25 years and is now the second most common cause of death of teenagers. Although the psychiatrists and sociologists are still struggling to find the causes behind the trend, recent research indicates that depression, substance abuse, behavioral problems, easy access to guns, family history of suicides, and exposure to violence are major risk factors leading to suicide in the young. In this paper various aspects of adolescent suicides are examined, including its major causes, its occurrence among the youth of different ethnic backgrounds and sexual orientation. The paper also looks at ways of preventing it.
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"Three times as many teenage girls attempt suicide as boys. However, the single most likely candidate for ?successful? suicide is the white teenaged boy. The reason why more girls attempt suicides but the boys lead the field in fatal suicides is because the boys are likely to use more lethal methods for suicide such as firearms and hanging. The girls usually resort to methods such as consuming sleeping pills that have a higher survival rate. Moreover, according to psychiatrists, the girls while attempting suicide are crying out for help in desperation and could be secretly hoping to be rescued. On the other hand, the boys ?conditioned to bottle up their emotions??are so ashamed of their feelings that they figure they are better off dead.?"
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Adolescent Suicide, 1997.
Focuses on Canada. Examines incidence, demographics, psychological causes, theories (social, conflict, feminist), self-image, family & gender issues.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 16 sources, £ 66.95
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" ADOLESCENT SUICIDE IN CANADA
Introduction
The purpose of this study is to examine the current literature on adolescent suicide in Canada. The paper begins with a delineation of the general scope of the problem; this is followed by an exploration of demographic and psychosocial variables postulated as causal or contributive factors to the problem of adolescent suicide.
The third section of the paper places the problem in context by examining the conservative, conflict and feminist models of causative and contributive factors. The final section of the paper presents a series of conclusions about adolescent suicide in Canada which were formulated on the basis of the reviewed material."
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