Teens Tend Model Suicide Behaviors

In the United States, suicide is the third-leading cause of death for 10 to 14-year-olds (CDC, 2015) and for 15 to 19-year-olds (Friedman, 2008). In 2013, 17.0% of students grades 9 to 12 in the United States seriously thought about committing suicide; 13.6% made a suicide plan; 8.0% attempted suicide; and 2.7% attempted suicide in which required medical attention (CDC, 2015). These alarming statistics show that there is something wrong with the way suicide is handled in today’s society. In order to alleviate the devastating consequences of teenage suicide, it is important to get at the root of what causes it all: mental illness. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (2013), mental illness is the imbalance of thinking, state of mind, and mood. Approximately 90% of all suicides are committed by people with mental illnesses (NAMI, n.d.). This shows that there is a correlation between mental illness and suicide. If mental illnesses are not treated, deadly consequences could occur. It would make sense that if there is a correlation between mental illness and suicide across all ages, the same should be thought for adolescents. Approximately 21% of all teenagers have a treatable mental illness (Friedman, 2008), although 60% do not receive the help that they need (Horowitz, Ballard, & Pao, 2009). If mental illnesses are not found and treated in teenagers, some of them may pay the ultimate price.

Brandy Vela, an eighteen-year-old high school student, committed suicide right in front of her family. Due to all the bullying over her weight, and especially in social media, she pulled the trigger and ended her life. It is said that her sister had heard a noisy disturbance and when she went upstairs to her sister’s room, she found Vela holding a gun pointing at her chest. “She is just crying and crying and I’m like, ‘Brandy please don’t. Brandy no.’” Jacqueline the twenty two-year-old sister told Fox News. (Fox News-Texas Teen). Fox News said Brandy Vela was taken to Clear Lake Regional Medical Center immediately but died soon after. (Fox

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.

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Youth suicide is one of the leading health concerns for young people and it has claimed many lives in the past decades. Youths with suicidal thoughts would usually displays signs and symptoms and it is the parents’

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 2015, suicide is the second leading cause of death in the adolescent population in this country and the number of occurrences continues to rise at a dramatic rate. For every teen that completes a suicide, 100 make an attempt, making suicide a paramount public health issue that needs to be addressed. Statistics show that since 2009, the rates of attempted and completed suicide, in this age group continue to steadily increase (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2015; Taliaferro, Oberstar, & Wagman-Borowsky, 2012).

Yet researchers and mental health professionals cannot pinpoint why the rate has climbed, and they know little about what causes someone thinking about suicide to attempt it. As a result, suicide-screening tools are not very effective, and most school-based suicide-prevention programs may not reduce teen suicides. But researchers are hopeful that new studies, including large trials of three kinds of psychotherapy in adolescents, will help in understanding teen suicide and lead to better identification and treatment of high-risk teens. Meanwhile, many states are requiring instructors to be trained to recognize and respond to potentially suicidal students. Also, researchers have begun studying into physical brain characteristics that could be connected to teen suicide. It’s difficult to pinpoint why exactly suicide death rates have risen among teenagers. But Kelly Posner, a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University, says possibilities include a growth in social media and cyber bullying; a drop in antidepressant use after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2004 required antidepressant labels to carry a warning of possible suicide risk for children and adolescents; and the weak economy. There have been many reports on young teens that post online their last message, and

If I wanted to help decrease the rate of teenage suicide, I would interview suicide survivors and people who had tried to commit suicide but didn't. I would interview them about what led them to the decision that they wanted to commit suicide, but then ask about all the good things that have happened to them since they decided not to or were not able to complete it. I would want them to spend a lot of time describing their hardships and how they felt that the pain was inescapable and how they felt like everyone might be better off without them, and then I would want them to spend a longer time describing the happiness that they have experienced and all the little things that make them happy now. For example, maybe one of the survivors talks

Each day, 95 people in the United States die by suicide. No one is immune to this tragic act regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, geographic location, and socioeconomic status. Suicide is especially prevalent in the adolescent and young adult populations, and is the third leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10 and 24 (Borges et al., 2010). Within the group of 10- to 14 year-olds, most deaths by suicide occur in children and adolescents ages 12-14, with the rate of suicide deaths increasing dramatically in the late teen years. The rate of suicidal behavior continues to increase until the early twenties, at which points it drops off until late

Suicide among adolescents, has been an increasing problem over the past several decades. Suicide is now the third leading cause of death for young people ages 15 to 24, accounting for 20% of all suicidal deaths. Looking through a biopsychosocial lens, there are factors that we can see that contribute to the thoughts and attempts of suicide, these factors include stressful life events, such as academic problems, unintended pregnancy,

My purpose is to educate people through the ages of 15 to 24, about suicidal awareness and the help that is readily available. according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, suicide has now reached the second leading cause of death among 15 to 24 year-olds, (Suicide). As an applied example of developmental psychology, suicide has researched studies that have linked teenage suicide to issues with development or other problems that occur over a person's lifetime. Some developmental issues have been recognized as anything from abuse, bullying, family problems, to mental health disorders. Studies tend to focus on lifestyles of the specific group being studied, home environment, social environment, medical history, mental

The intent to inflict harm to one self-consciously or unconsciously is the act of suicidal behavior. Adolescent’s thinking they are worthless as a result of one or more childhood adversities, such as child abuse (physical, sexual, emotional), living in a household of drug and alcohol abuse, observing violence against a parent or family member, poverty, and a family history or mental health further exacerbate likely hood of a child with suicidal or homicidal behavior. The behavior can quickly escalate to true gestures of suicidal. This includes having a plan to harm someone or themselves. Many adolescents feel life is not worth living and no one cares or understand them anyway, so it will not matter, if they were no longer alive. All too often, the children do not want to hurt themselves, just to be heard. No matter, if a child has a plan of execution of merely thinking of harming themselves, they should be taking seriously and to seek professional help, immediately. Young adults that have thoughts of suicide, the suicide-danger danger risk intensify when left untreated, (Hardt, Herke & Schier,

Social factors such as sexual abuse, alcohol or drug use, and even the idea of suicidal contagion, can affect the suicide rates in youth (Amitai, & Apter, 2012). According to a report from Child Trends, an environmental factor that plays a main role in the rates of youth suicide is the accessibility to lethal methods, especially guns (Child Trend Databank, 2016). The report also mentions that youth who experienced traumas in life, who have poor communication with their parents, and who have been exposed to suicidal behaviors are more likely to commit suicide (2016). In addition to these factors, mental illness also plays a role in suicide among youth between the ages of 15 and 19. When a young person has a mood disorder such as anxiety, depression, or bipolar disorder, they are much more likely to attempt suicide. Approximately, 90 percent of youth who do attempt suicide has a mood disorder (Healthy Children,

Telling someone that they are fat does not make you any skinnier calling someone dumb or stupid won’t make you any smarter and saying someone should die doesn’t make you any better than them. Teens cut themselves and hurt themselves because of being bullied and most end up killing themselves because of the words others say. Most kids and teens feel defenceless when they are being verbally or physically bullied.