The Epidemic Of Suicide In The Classroom

Attempting suicide is an epidemic in the United States; especially when 41% of transgender individuals have attempted suicide compared 1.6% of the general population (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). Due to this, the question of whether or not transgender youth have a harder, more straining adolescence than their cisgender counterparts rises. Although adolescence can be hard on everyone, experiences such as a school environment, puberty, laws that guarantee protection, family and social acceptance of transgender youth are harder than those of their cisgender counterparts (harder does not necessarily mean correlate with strenuous, the use of harder is aiming more towards different, costly, and possibly more confusing). The revolution for transgender lives is just beginning, change is happening. But in order for change to occur, adequate information on the material needs to be discussed and terminology must be defined and questions must be answered. Questions such as: what do the terms transgender and cisgender actually mean? Why is it important to know the difference between the two terms? What is the difference between transsexual and transgender?

Despite all these positives of school suicide prevention programs, there are still those who believe that there are too many negative aspects to deem them appropriate or even doable in the school system. Now, of course there are the people who claim that those who threaten suicide, or even go as far as committing suicide, are just doing so to receive attention. This goes along with what Harry Beckwith discusses in his book Unthinking regarding one main thing that the majority of Americans want: to stand out from the crowd. Throughout this section in his book, Beckwith claims that people in the United States value secret menus and tattoos merely because they set us apart. (90-92). With that logic, it makes complete sense that a person would go as far as to threaten to take their own life to receive attention, right? Several other arguments exist such as “the risk of false positives or false negatives, the possible stigmatization of those found to be in need of services, the overall cost-effectiveness of such programs… and the risk that a school may not have the resources to deal effectively with every student found to be at-risk” (Abel and Erickson 287). The reason behind the argument involving the chance of error in the schoolwide screenings comes from the fear that a student who is depressed or suicidal will not appear as such in the test, or a student who is not depressed or suicidal, will. This could result in a family losing their child to suicide later on because they

There has been about 4,400 deaths a year do to suicide. Suicide can be caused by many things. A person can be pushed to suicide, if they are bullied and/or deeply depressed.

I truly believe that if there were more advocates for middle schoolers, teen suicides would decrease, graduation rates would increase, and students would grow up to be more well rounded and accepting of others. The middle school years serve to segregate the overachievers from the underdogs. To not give kids a chance to reach their full potential is unethical, especially if they are suffering, whether they are struggling at home or at school, socially or emotionally. Everyone becomes so caught up in the bigger picture like school ratings and publicity that kids slip through the cracks. In this day and age, undiagnosed mental disorders are all too common but by spending five minutes with a student, it is fairly simple to tell if they need help and to begin pinpointing what the problem is. If administration simply took the time to talk to students and find out about their lives then I think that there is something that can be done to help. Maybe we need more guidance counselors. Maybe it's something else, but something must change. I personally nearly slipped through the cracks myself and I've seen it happen to other people, including close friends of mine and I will no longer sit here silently and watch more kids suffer.

accidents, and other diseases, but by their own hand. These people make the choice that

Suicides happen more often in America because of bullying. Bullying needs to stop. Bullying is worse than a bystander because there depressed, mad, or sad.

Expert Frank Bruni created a believable article stressing the idea that teens overstress over anything that regards to school, whether it be their grades, stride to follow in the expectations of others and themselves, being active, staying in sports, or attending every club a school may offer. I believe in this article due to its use of statistical evidence from other schools and colleges as well as Bruni’s personal experience. The article does have one major hitch that holds it back from becoming credible to most. This hitch is the lack of statistical evidence from a variety of other schools and backgrounds.

The structure of our program is to work with school sites in order to train a core group of students on how to identify the risk factors and warning signs of suicide. The goal is for the students to ultimately be a link to a trusted adult or resource on campus for a student who may be contemplating suicide. Once students are trained we work with them to create schoolwide campaigns which focus on raising awareness to help resources that are always available when needed.

Depression and suicidality are significant problems on college campuses across the United States (Garlow, Rosenberg, Moore, Haas, Koestner, Hendin, & Nemeroff, 2007; Silverman, Meyer, Sloane, Raffel, & Pratt, 1997). According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), suicide is the second leading cause of death on college campuses (National Alliance on Mental Illness [NAMI], 2012). In all, over 1,000 college students die at their own hands each year (Suicide Prevention Resource Center, 2004), and 15% of college students surveyed by the National Research Consortium of Counseling Centers in Higher Education report having considered suicide (American Psychological Association [APA], 2008). In fact, the number of college students experiencing

In America today, most schools have a plethora of diversity. Students in schools all have different cultures, talents, and views that make them unique from one another. Schools feel full of culture due to diversity. A student 's voice helps a school become a wonderful and lively place to learn. However, what happens when a student silences their voice forever by committing suicide?

The guys and I were parked infront of this highschool we had spotted while buying food last week. We has taken a black van in an attempt to blend in. Maybe the people that notice will think we were just deliering things and there won’t be a problem. I decided that this was a good school for the shoot up because there were a lot of suicides and there appeared to be cliques by the way groups of people would meet eachother before disappearing into the school. Are plan was to wait till first period was going before sneaking in and attacking classrooms one by one. It was a fairly small school and it would be a pretty simple task if there weren’t any problems. The guys were getting impatient and I was trying to find was to entertain them, Nick was

Teen suicide is one of the largest problems facing America at the moment, and it will only become worse if the country does not come up with a solution. “According to the American Psychiatric Association, suicide is the third leading cause of death for young people between eleven and eighteen years of age (Teen Suicide).” American families can not keep losing sons and daughters to this entirely preventable epidemic. The largest issue with teen suicide is that Americans are using largely outdated and/or ineffective strategies in dealing with teen suicide, and Americans need to realize that this problem will not just go away. Using the old methods, such as telling teens to toughen up, are clearly not working and in some cases are contributing to the problem. Teen suicide is alarmingly on the rise and “According to the CDC, 5,504 people ages 10 to 24 died by suicide in 2014, the most recent year in which statistics are available. The figure was up from the grim 2013 tally of 5,264, and the number has risen every year and up 13 percent from 2010 (Corbin).” There are several causes for teen suicide that range from depression to concussions, and for each cause there are several proposed solutions to suicide or its causes, but many of the solutions will cause more problems instead of solving current ones, Americans need to utilize effective suicide prevention strategies and ignore the useless and outdated ones.

In the aftermath of a student suicide, I co-founded a National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) chapter on campus. We soon encountered obstacles with both the Student Activities Board and Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CPS). We needed the Board’s approval to be recognized as a club. They initially denied our club application citing lack of student interest, but forbid us from holding interest meetings while we are not recognized. They only chartered our club after we submitted an online student petition with hundreds of signatures. The Board also initially denied NAMI funding to train and certify students as facilitators. They believed that peer facilitators were unnecessary as students on campus already have the Counseling and Psychiatric

What happened? The parents of an 18-year-old student are suing Loudoun County Public School counselor and the school district in Virginia, for damages for the deprivation of their son amounting to Five million dollars for damages for mental torture, the loss of future security and upkeep of their son and funeral expenses. The counselor violated LCPS’ standards, after learning the teen was at risk of taking his life, giving no notice to the student’s parents or principal and not setting up a suicide prevention plan with the teen (Balingit, 2016). Another complaint was also cited in the article of a pupil in 2015 from the same high school under the direction of the same counselor took her life. The advocate also informed by a friend that she

Also, exploring current policies and procedures within the school system. In addition to research, interviewing an experienced educator, with connections to suicide personally and professionally will remain high priority. As humans, one of the greatest skills we acquire, is the ability to assess. It is absolutely essential to listen to what a person is saying, but most importantly to hear what they are not . If one’s assessment skills are in tune when communicating, symptoms could be evaluated more thoroughly, and possibly save someone’s life. Together, we can end the