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This paper explains that violence and suicide, as seen in the public school system, affects teenagers, often leaving emotional scars and mental health disorders such as post traumatic stress syndrome. The author points out that prevention of suicide is important in reducing the number of adolescents who attempt or commit suicide. The paper relates that intervention is helping a teenager, who is in the crisis of committing the act of suicide; whereas, postvention is addressing the problems and aftereffects of the trauma of a student having committed suicide.

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""Suicide is a leading cause of death in adolescents aged 15-19" (Mazza1997: 382). Violence and suicide seen in the public school system affects teenagers often leaving emotional scars and mental health disorders such as post-traumatic stress syndrome. Prevention of suicide is important in reducing the number of adolescents who attempt or commit suicide. Intervention is helping a teenager who is in the crisis of committing the act of suicide. Postvention is addressing the problems and aftereffects of the trauma of a student committing suicide. Studying the ways educational staff is involved with prevention, intervention, and postvention are important with the growing numbers of adolescents who are at high-risk of suicidal thoughts or intentions. Knowing the statistics and background information about adolescent suicide is important in deciding what methods should be used to reduce the problem."

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