Suicide

Essay # 112473

Child, Youth Issues > Suicide
Psychology > Social

Suicide

A look at suicidal tendencies.

794 words () | 4 sources | APA | 2009 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper deals with the subject of suicide, describing incidents that can trigger depression and providing information from various studies.

Outline
How thinking has changed
Empirical knowledge
Pivotal historical experiments

From the Paper:

"Today suicide is mainly thought of in terms of mental illness, and therefore theories are based on intervention. It may be found that "just being aware of the potential for sizable increases in the number of youth suicides may heighten awareness and emphasize the need for more intense efforts at intervention. Smaller youth populations have resulted in fewer absolute numbers of youth suicides during the last several years" (Freeman, 1998, p. 31). Psychologists today classify depression as a major cause of suicide across the lifespan, although the phenomenon is often focused upon in the present media in terms of youth and young adult suicide. Younger people are a particular risk group for increased rates of suicide compared to other age groups and settings because of the increased possibility during this life stage and setting of unstable peer (social) and unstable familial (family) relationships, and increased risk of problems that the person may have in finding forms of social belongingness."

Sample of Sources Used:

Duane, E (2003). College student suicidality and family issues. College Student Journal.
Freeman, Donald G. (1998). Determinants of youth suicide: the Easterlin-Holinger cohort hypothesis re-examined. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, pp. 20-32.
Whitely, Elise, Gunnell, David, Daniel Dorling, et. al (1999). Ecological study of social fragmentation, poverty, and suicide. British Medical Journal 16(2).
Initiative Educates Media, MH Professionals about Suicide Coverage (2002). Mental Health Weekly, p. 37