Adolescent Suicide

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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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