Teen Suicide

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Teen Suicide

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STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

Suicide occurs in every country in the world and has existed all over known history . Despite considerable progress in understanding suicide the recognition of high-risk groups and the development of a diversity of prevention and intervention programs for suicidal individuals , there has been considerably less concern for the impact of suicide . Completed suicides , suicide attempts , and suicidal ideation have intense effects upon family , friends , and helpers . Suicide influences the framework of society and cultural differences

influence the nature of the ramifications of suicidal ideation behaviour . Individuals , who have considered killing themselves , as well as those who attempted suicide without a fatal outcome , can also experience the collision of their suicidal behaviour upon their lives

WHY IS THE PROBLEM IMPORTANT

The problem of teen suicide has become societal issue and increasing in immense rate that it cannot be ignored

Among American youths , the suicide rate is increasing most dramatically among Black youth with a steady narrowing of the gap between Black and white teen suicide rates . Although suicide rates are on the rise in the Black community , rates for Hispanic , Black , and Asian Americans aged 15-24 remain significantly lower than suicide rates among non-Hispanic white youth ' U .S . Bureau of the Census (1994

In 1990 , some one million on high school students attempted suicide in the United States . According to a national survey conducted by the Centres for Disease Control (1990 , about 3 .6 million students in grades 9-12 (30 percent of all students in that age range ) reported suicidal ideation throughout that year . The suicide rate among adolescents in the United States has quadrupled since 1950 suicide is at present the second leading cause of death and the leading cause of non-accidental death amongst fifteen to nineteen-year-olds TEEN DISENFRANCHISEMENT LEADS TO SUICIDE

A multifarious array of interrelated factors has been proposed to account for suicidal behaviour among adolescents with genetic psychodynamic , and psychosocial influences . Blumenthal (1990 characterized these risk factors into five domains : psychiatric diss , personality traits , and familial , biological , and psychosocial factors . Especially , psychiatric diagnoses of affective dis , conduct dis , or substance abuse personality traits of depressed mood , poor self-image , and impulsivity parental psychiatric disturbance and /or substance abuse possible genetic disposition for depression family history of suicide and environmental stressors such as considerable loss , physical and /or sexual abuse , parental separation and family discord have been associated with high suicide risk in adolescents and above all teen disenfranchisement (Blumenthal 1990 "The judge said the tapes were incendiary . We have plenty of things already that stimulate violence " said sociologist Ralph Larkin , author of "Comprehending Columbine

The way that a society deals with a person indicates his or her temperament to face how he or she cope disenfranchisement Disenfranchisement includes lack of support and love from family and love ones , loss of employment or admission or right to vote due to cultural background . Migrants are both deserting and deserted . Migration itself may be a strategy of risk-taking...