Suicide in Adolescents

The journal is written about Canadian adolescent's rates regarding suicide evidence in the year of 2014 that goes back to the year 2008 concerning the youth being hospitalized twenty-five percent for a suicide attempt. Then eighteen percent engage in non-suicidal self-harm behaviors in

Teen’s behavior is a major warning sign of suicide or suicidal thoughts. Many factors play into an adolescent's behavior and attitude determining the way they

According to Fowler, Crosby, Parks, and Ivey (2013), suicide and nonfatal suicidal ideations are significant public health concerns for adolescents and young adults. While the onset of suicidal behaviors is observed as young as six years of age, rates of death and nonfatal injury resulting from suicidal behavior are moderately low until 15 years of age (Fowler et al., 2013). According to Fowler et al (2013), the most current available statistics in the United States (U. S.) reported suicide as the third leading cause of death among youth aged 10-14 and 15-19 years, and it was the second leading cause of death among persons aged 20-24 years.

Discovering one’s identity, struggling to understand one’s conventionally appropriate gender role, accepting one’s body image, gaining independence from parents, maintaining responsible sexual relationships along with enduring vehement hormones, establishing values relating to marriage and parenthood, and simultaneously managing academic goals, extracurricular activities, and occupational preparations are all psychological and social demands placed on the adolescent. These demands, along with additional factors, such as bullying, drug use/domestic substance abuse, domestic violence, divorce of parents, rape/sexual assault, loss of a loved one, heartbreak, low socioeconomic status, health problems, race, ethnicity, struggles with self-identification, and other traumatic experiences can all increase one’s likelihood to commit suicide.

Methods Analysis." Journal of Youth & Adolescence, vol. 46, no. 7, July 2017, pp. 1598-1610.

There is at least 113 suicides each day or 1 every 13 minutes. Suicide among males is the seventh leading cause of death and the fourteenth leading cause in females. Most suicides are with a firearm and are carried out with a “ Saturday night special”. (Dilaura,Cynthia DiLaura) “More than 90 percent of suicide attempts with a gun are fatal. “ (Brady Campaign) There are a number of reasons why suicide occurs. Stress is the number one cause among our youth, bullies, peer pressure, depression, and abuse. 41,100 people committed suicide in the United States in 2013. Our young teens today does not take time to look deeper into there problem and to seek out a better solution. They are looking for a quick fix but not realizing once the trigger is pulled the result is final with no turning back. Most people who has attempted suicide is more likely to try a second attempt and most have an underlying mental illness. There is many warming that someone may be in a suicide crisis. We most learn how to see things through their eyes. No matter what one is facing in life or the difficult that lie ahead of them Nothing is worth taken your own

Haelle’s article highlights the alarming rise of suicide among teens and in particular, the risk factors that cause it according to a study done by the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Adolescence. Haelle’s main focus on the article discusses the common risk-factors associated with youth suicide and its rise to the second leading cause of death. More specifically, the report focuses in on the link of substance abuse in alcohol and drugs being the number 1 risk factor and can be identified with screenings for suicide risk. The

The Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire taps into lifetime’s suicide ideation and/or suicide attempt, assess the frequency of suicidal ideations over the past twelve months, assess the threat of suicide attempt, and evaluate self-reported likelihood of suicidal behavior in the future (Osman, Bagg, Gutierrez,

A total of one hundred participants have completed the study or a ratio of fifty suicide attempters and fifty suicide completers. The group size is large enough for the researchers to make a sufficient generalization. The samples have an appropriate combination of both male and female adults in various age groups.

The RFL-YA is composed of 32 items that are constructed to assess reasons young adults give for not engaging in suicide-related behaviors (i.e., reasons for living). Each item is rated on a six-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all important) to 6 (extremely important). Responses on the items are averaged to obtain a total scale score; higher scores are indicative of stronger reasons for living. Estimates of internal consistency and concurrent validity of the total RFL-YA and the five subscales are satisfactory. The scale had good reliability and predictive validity, distinguishing between suicidal ideators from suicide attempters.

In a study conducted by Karen P. Reed, William Nugent, and Lyle Cooper, the relationships between various components, such as age, gender, substance abuse, depression, and suicide attempts are studied. This study has been published under the name “Children and Youth Services Review” and could be found in volume 55, pages 128-137 of their August 2015 issue. The author’s purpose is to mediate the relationship between biological factors, along with environmental factors, like bullying victimization, and suicide rates and attempts in adolescents.

Suicide is the third leading cause of deaths in adolescents in the United States. Teen suicide is also often referred to as a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Teens so often are suicidal and attempt suicide as a call for help from others. They have no intention in dying they are just trying to cry out for help from anyone that will listen. Many reasons cause teen to attempt suicide, varying from bullying to psychological disorders. In fact, psychological disorders accounts for about 90% of teens who attempt or commit suicide. Teenagers are also at higher risk of suicide when they are under

Teen suicide is a major problem in our society today. The adolescent suicide rate has tripled since 1960, while being the largest cause of death between the ages of 15 and 24. This is the one single age group that has seen an increase in suicides over the past thirty years. There are about 10,000 reported suicides reported annually. It is estimated however, that the true number of teen suicides is actually three to four times that number when unreported deaths are factored in.

Suicide is a main source of death around the world and ranks among the three main causes of death among young adults aged between 15-45 years. Indeed, a response to this continuous worldwide issue, the World Health Organization called for the prevention of suicide (WHO, 2015). Several studies have evaluated some of the contributing factors, however, the connection between suicide and the evaluated factors is conclusively positive or negative.

Teenage suicide, unfortunately, occurs in every corner of the world. It is a very serious problem and has been labeled as a growing epidemic by many health professionals worldwide. In Malaysia, the rate of suicide is alarming. According to the report of a local newspaper in Malaysia, Nanyang Siang Pao (2011), there was 445 suicidal cases (347 males and 98 females) reported for the first eight months of 2011 as compared to 290 cases in 2008. This accounts for the generally higher record of suicide attempts in males than females in the Malaysian context. In addition, the rates for those of 30-39 years (109 cases) and 20-29 years old (108 cases) was significantly higher compared with other age cohorts. The report