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Psychological Impact of Teenage Suicide, 2004.
Examines how the suicide of teenagers affects the loved ones left behind.
2,069 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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Teenage suicide occurs at an alarming rate and can be directly attributed to three main causes, depression, substance abuse, and relationships. Sadly, many times, the person contemplating the act of suicide shows classic symptoms by asking for help, but loved ones, such as family and friends, fail to notice the signs. This paper focuses on a discussion of the psychological impact of teenage suicide on family members, school friends, and the surrounding community by providing a literature review on the subject.
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"Robert Roerich, M.D. (2002) has sought to combat the suicidal monster in an online environment. He has created an online university, Roadmind University, to help prevent suicide (Newswire, 2002). His work has become recognized throughout the world. He offers free to the public a method that helps people ?understand their mental imagery to reveal their hidden emotions and life conflicts?. With the use of a PowerPoint presentation, the participant is presented a series of questions that sets them on an imaginary journey. Roerich utilizes the Freudian method of tapping into the unconscious with, "The Road Interview". The website then provides an interpretation of the participant's answers by explaining what that person's mental imagery means. The results are immediate and candid."
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Teenage Suicide: Causes and Solutions, 2000.
A detailed account of the phenomenon of teenage suicide and how to tackle the situation.
1,060 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 10 sources, $ 37.95
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A discussion of teenage suicide, its causes and effects. This paper examines aspects that may cause teenage suicide such as depression and stress and the possible methods one can use to minimize or deal with adolescent ordeals that may lead to suicide. The paper includes statistics of teenage suicide and a discussion of some of the misconceptions about the issue.
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"During the past quarter century, the suicide rate has tripled among young people fifteen to twenty-four years old. More than five thousand teens now take their own lives each year in the United Sates (Colman, 9). Next to accidents and homicides, suicide is the most common cause of death for people (Vine, 101). Suicide is the sixth leading cause of death in the ages of 5-14 years old! We see the media covering different areas about teenage suicide. Some of us may wonder what exactly caused those teens to go and end their life. What can we do to prevent the suicide rates to increase and help decrease it?"
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Teenage Suicide, 2004.
An analysis of the rising problem of teenage suicide.
2,221 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes the problem of teen suicide. The paper researches the problem and submits a detailed proposal that offers a better plan for lessening or remedying the problem. The paper contends that teenage suicide is rapidly becoming one of the biggest problems facing teens today. The paper explains that schools, families, friends, and professionals must learn to recognized the early symptoms of potential suicide in order to act on them as quickly as possible.
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"Suicide by teenagers is a social problem facing the nation. Families all over the country are coping with depressed and angry children, and turning to the schools and social service agencies for help and understanding. One writer called teen suicide, "an emotional cancer at the heart of our 'successful society,' but it has remained, for the most part, a hidden silent crisis" (Portner, 2001, pg. vii-viii). Much research has shown the problem affects boys more than girls and those with ethnic backgrounds even more so. However, girls tend to "attempt" suicide more often than boys do. The problem exists for a number of reasons. Most teens who commit suicide have some form of mental problem or diagnosis, and many are depressed or hopeless (Davis, 1999, pg. 119). Thus, it seems all teens are at risk at one time or another, and so, society must work harder to discover the signs of suicide in teens, and help teens with their problems before they reach suicide levels."
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Teenage Suicide, 2002.
An examination of the phenomenon of teenage suicide through the use of a review of Dr. David Lester?s book, ?The Cruelest Death: the Enigma of Adolescent Suicide".
2,720 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 81.95
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This paper uses this book as its main source to examine the trend of suicide among adolescents. By using two case studies, this paper explores the helplessness that some teenagers feel and how they resort to this final desperate measure. The paper compares trends between males and females and older and younger teenagers. It also examines psychological disorders which lead to suicide such as depression.
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"Dr. David Lester?s book, ?The Cruelest Death: the Enigma of Adolescent Suicide, ? presents alarming findings of fact about the third leading cause of death in the USA among those below 24 -- suicide. It points to the recent and dramatic rise in the incidence of the last 20 years as suggestive of an epidemic (Lester 1993) that warrants greater attention and sobriety among those who can and should do something about it. It is a frank inquest into the social phenomenon by providing information support to theory, research, management and intervention helpful to professionals ? particularly clinicians, crisis workers and parents -- and the entire family with greater insights that can help them device more effective, responsive and successful strategies in the clinic, school and at home, all with the end-view of reversing the trend."
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Teenage Suicide, 1989.
Discusses incidence, age groups, suicide gestures, causes and theories.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 8 sources, $ 63.95
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"Teenage suicide Is one of the major problems mental health professionals must address. Over the last generation the incidence of adolescent suicide has increased at a rapid rate. Among teenagers and young adults, those 15 to 24, suicide is one of the three leading causes of death. In addition, the self-destructive behaviors of young people, including so-called "suicide gestures," constitute a substantial health issue closely related to adolescent suicide. For that reason, counselors and other professionals continue to seek theoretical explanations of teenage suicide that will assist in identifying and treating those most at risk. Unfortunately, beyond pointing to the turbulence of our society and to the decline of the family, research has been slow in establishing the causes of adolescent suicide. Most experts agree that the rising rate of suicide (...)"
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Sports Psychology and Teenage Girl Swimmers, 2004.
An investigation into the effect of self-efficacy and psychological skills training on post-pubescent females in adhering to competitive swimming.
12,487 words (approx. 49.9 pages), 62 sources, MLA, $ 239.95
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This study shows that psychological training for these adolescent girls is important and has a positive effect on them, not only in competitive swimming, but in other athletic endeavors and in the rest of their lives as well.
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Purpose of the Study
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"How well adolescents perform in competitive swimming is related to many factors. One of these is how much self-efficacy they have, another is the involvement that the parents have in the child?s life, and another is the skill that these children display. All of these things work together to build self-confidence and psychological skills begin to develop from this. Not all children develop these psychological skills, and whether these skills are available has much to do with the physical prowess that these children display. There are concerns about whether physical skills bring psychological confidence, or whether psychological confidence helps to bring out the physical skills that these children have. Either way, both are very important to the children and how well they do at competitive swimming and other activities."
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Psychology and the Psychological Study of Human Aggression, 2000.
A look at various psychological studies and opinion on human aggression.
1,695 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 9 sources, $ 54.95
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"Psychology is a science dealing with behavior and mental processes. It concerns the hows and whys of individual human behavior. Psychological research employs the scientific method, which utilizes the techniques and procedures of naturalistic observation and experimentation to deal with facts, data, and their interpretation according to certain principles. In a given study, the dependent variable under study is considered to be a function of the 'independent variables. Typically, one independent variable is manipulated - the experi-mental variable, while the other independent variables are controlled. Statistical methods are then employed to anal, the research data to ascertain if the findings support or refute the experimental hypothesis......."
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Community Psychology And Traditional Psychology, 2002.
Examines the differences between the two schools of psychology.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 9 sources, $ 39.95
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Examines the differences between the two schools of psychology. Community as grounded in roots of ecological psychology & the social sciences. Traditional as based upon principles of psychoanalysis, behaviorism & humanistic psychotherapies. Uses actor Robert Downey, Jr. and his chronic substance abuse problems to illustrate how both schools of psychology would analyze his difficulties.
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"Community psychology is a specialization within a larger realm encompassing psychology and the social sciences that is grounded in the roots of ecological psychology (What is community psychology..., 2000). Traditional psychology, on the other hand, is based upon fundamental principles of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and humanistic psychotherapies (Garfield & Bergin, 1986). The two approaches differ in terms of views, values, and focus. The purpose of this report is to examine the differences between these two schools of psychology with reference to a specific individual seeking help for a life problem. The individual selected is the well-known actor, Robert Downey, Jr., whose substance abuse problems have been tracked in the popular press over the course of the last several years."
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Adolescent Depression And Suicide, 2002.
Summarizes possible causes of depression and teenage suicide.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 31.95
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Summarizes possible causes of depression and teenage suicide. Risk factors identified by psychologists and clinicians. External contributors (gender, birth order, substance abuse, social pressure, unstable families, conduct disorder). Internal contributors (hopelessness, coping skill deficits). Negative outcomes.; academic problems. Need to develop prevention tools. Paper contains many quotations.
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Depression has become a multi-million dollar industry. Mainstream daily life offers many stressful life events that are compounded by external stimuli such as the media. Too often, adolescents have received blame for acting out rather than receiving focus for reacting within. "The self is a multi-faceted dynamic entity that is involved in the construction of meaning, mediating and regulating emotions and motivating actions" (Orbach, Mikulincer, Stein, & Cohen, 1998, p. 435). With teenage suicide purported to be epidemic and rising, it is essential that the adolescent "self" be examined so preventive tools may be exacted and implemented. "Adolescent depression has also been shown to predict a variety of negative outcomes, including: academic problems, marital difficulties, delinquency ..."
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Adolescent Suicide, 2002.
This paper discusses the epidemic of teenage suicide in the United States and the problems of prevention.
1,370 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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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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"Teenage Wasteland", 2004.
This paper is a review of the book, "Teenage Wasteland" by Donna Gaines, which delves into teenage suicides, as well as the theories as to why they occurred in this neighborhood.
2,005 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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"Teenage Wasteland" is a book that cleverly combines pure participant research and personal experience. The book delves into the unexplained suicides that occur in a small suburban town of Bergenfield, New Jersey. The paper summarizes the main points of the book and then presents the theories used by Donna Gaines to understand why the suicides occurred.
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"In order to understand what really happened and why, Gaines travels to Bergenfield in order to attempt assimilation into the culture of those who were friends or peers of the four suicide victims. The adaptation into the lives of these kids does not present itself as a simple task. These kids aren?t jocks, brains, preps, or anything in between, by any means. They are the outsiders. They represent the outcasts or the ?burnouts? that could only relate to one another. They share the same taste in music, similar views on life, and comparable family structures. But, what else is so intimately shared that makes four teenagers want to die together? That is one of Gaines? curiosities. She asks herself ?What could be so intimately binding that in the early morning hours of March 11 not one of them could stop, step back from the pact they had made to say, ?Wait, I can?t do this??? (Gaines, 1991, p. 9) "
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Adolescent Suicide and the Media, 1990.
This paper discusses theories on the impact of filmic and televised violence on teenage suicide.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 9 sources, $ 39.95
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"Suicide and suicidal attempts are, contrary to popular wisdom, quite frequent in childhood and adolescence. Even in the 1970s, suicidal death was shown to be one of the fastest growing adolescent problems, ranking fourth as the leading cause of death in the fifteen.to nineteen.year age group. This view is echoed in the more current literature in the field, which also emphasizes that 59 to 71 percent of surveyed adolescents believe suicide to be a potential for most within that age group. Similarly, attitudes toward death within the fabric of American society have significantly changed in post World.War II society, primarily because of the pervasive influence of television and the rapid rise in the importance of the media. Prior to the advent of the media age, most Americans lived in smaller, more tightly knit ... "
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Drug Use and Adolescent Suicide, 1995.
This paper examines the relationship between teenagers suicide and their drug consumption: Incidence, connections, abuse, at-risk teenagers, family dysfunction, self-esteem and past and future research.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 15 sources, $ 47.95
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"This research examines the relationship between suicide by teenagers and drug consumption by teenagers. The term "drugs" includes illegal street narcotics and alcohol. The term "teenage" refers to 15-19 year olds. The suicide rate for 15-19 year olds is 10.2 persons per 100,000 population--18.2 for white males, the highest in this age group, and 2.1 for black females, the lowest in this age group. For all age groups, the suicide rate in the United States is 12.8 persons per 100,000 population. Thus, suicide among white male teenagers is a significant social problem. In numbers of deaths, as opposed to rates per 100,000 population, somewhat less than 3,000 persons among the 15-19 year olds commit suicide each year. As a leading cause of ... "
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Teen Suicide and Schools, 2002.
The role of schools in the prevention of suicides among teenagers.
1,092 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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The recent spate of school shootings has focused attention on violent behavior among teenagers. However, little attention has been given to another insidious and more common form of violence among young people -- the rise in teenagers committing suicide. This paper looks at the silent epidemic of teen suicide and the role schools could play in addressing this issue. The first part of the paper is an overview of teen suicide, looking at the scope of the problem and main causes of suicide among young people. In the second part, the paper looks at the changing role schools have played in preventing suicide and examines the current suicide prevention programs in place. Finally, the paper studies the barriers that stand in the way of such programs and suggests solutions to the problems.
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"The advent of two-income households and single parent families has changed the role schools play in the lives of young people. After all, many adolescents spend at least one-third of the day in school, or more for those involved in extra-curricular activities (King, 132). This has led to a broader definition of the term in loco parentis, the principle of temporary parental power originally conferred by Roman citizens on their children?s Greek teachers. In the United States, writes Portner, this power to discipline students also carried a corresponding responsibility to keep children from harm. (Portner, ?Suicide,?)."
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Suicide Bombers: Who Are They?, 2007.
This paper studies the psychology and mindset of a suicide bomber.
2,508 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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The paper examines various factors including the etiology of an average suicide, the history of suicide attacks, how suicide bombings are committed and the profile of a suicide bomber. The paper also discusses cultural support for suicide bombings, the correlation between finances and suicide bombings and the relationship between political freedom and suicide bombings. The paper shows how there is no single profile for a suicide bomber. The paper relates that it looks like the most significant factor for creating a suicide bomber is that he or she come from a culture that supports martyrdom. The paper also reveals that the most important elements in creating a suicide bomber appear to be feelings of oppression combined with a lack of political freedom.
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"Since 9-11, there have been several, competing theories, in which people have attempted to explain the psychology of the suicide bomber. Some people maintain that suicide bombers do not differ significantly from other people who commit suicide, and are marked by behaviors indicative of depression. However, there is little evidence to support such claims. In fact, more recent studies tend to suggest that suicide bombers do not suffer from an underlying affective disorder like depression, which would lead them to engage in suicidal behavior. Furthermore, there is no evidence that suicide bombers, at least at the time of recruitment, suffer from any type of psychopathology that would distinguish them from the general population."
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