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Suicide and Homosexual Youth, 2006.
This paper discusses the disproportionate rate of suicide among gay, lesbian and bisexual youth (GBLT).
1,355 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 45.95
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This paper explains that, because society often condemns, discriminates and bullied them, gay, lesbian and bisexual youths (GBLT) are provoked into committing suicide because of their feelings of self-pity and self-hatred, which result in despair and depression. The author points out that, in North America, about 70 percent of GLBT reported experiencing some form of harassment or violence and more than half of the attempted suicides among this age group are GLBT. The paper stresses that these persons need immediate help, such as the process of crisis intervention, which the paper describes. The paper includes several quotations.
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"A young person starts their sexual identity during their adolescence period. In this period, he can distinguish his own feelings, actions, and attractions to other people are getting visible. During adolescence, young people tend to experience their first adult erotic feelings, experiment with sexual behaviors, and develop a strong sense of their own gender identity and sexual orientation; gender identification includes understanding that a person is male or female as well as understanding the roles, values, duties, and responsibilities of being a man or a woman."
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Youth Suicide, 2002.
Examines the predictive factors in suicide among children and youth.
3,641 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 15 sources, APA, $ 101.95
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Of the 300,000 people who attempt suicide every year in the United States, about 10 percent succeed. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in children under 15 years of age; and about one in every ten teenagers will attempt to commit suicide before they finish high school.
Moreover, since 1950, suicide among young people has increased by 250 percent and the number is climbing. In Los Angeles county alone in one year, youth suicide climbed 80 percent. These alarming statistics highlight the importance of the need to fully understand the factors that contribute to suicide among youth. The first part of this paper examines the current research investigating predictors of suicide in young people. To this end, three categories of suicide predictor research are examined: Studies using clinical samples; studies using non-clinical samples and studies comparing predictors of clinical and non-clinical samples. The second part of this paper examines the story of one tragic youth who committed suicide in front of his classmates, as well as the issues faced by youth suicide in one major county. The review ends with the formulation of several conclusions concerning factors that assist in predicting suicide risk in young people.
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"Hutchings (1998) has suggested that another factor that may place children and adolescents at higher risk of suicide is if they witness domestic violence in their homes. In her study of a small sample of adolescents, Hutchings observed that adolescents who witness violence in the home are at an increased risk of trying to handle their own problems using violent methods; probably because their parents have modeled this behavior. Being at increased risk of using violence as a mechanism for coping, Hutchings feels that these teens could well be at increased risk of handling pain via suicide."
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Suicide amoung Youth, 1991.
This paper discusses suicide amoung youth: Statistics, demographics and social,psychological and biological factors.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 12 sources, $ 47.95
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"Suicide among the youth population is a problem which has been recognized all the way back to the Middle Ages and is one which has sparked a great deal of discussion among professionals in medicine, psychology, and psychiatry. Interest in youth suicide has increased considerably over the past 20 years, in keeping with a concurrent rise in the rate of suicide among youth. Researchers now place suicide as either the number one, two or three leading cause of death among 15 to 24 year-olds in the United States. These numbers reflect a tripling of the rate of suicide since the 1950's. The variation in placement of suicide as a leading cause of death is due to varying interpretations of "accidental ... "
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Suicide Among Youth and the Elderly, 2002.
Compares and contrasts suicide in both age groups.
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Compares and contrasts suicide in both age groups. Epidemiological diagnoses (risk factors, psychiatric illness, health changes, depression, hopelessness). Behavioral diagnosis (family discord, love problems, substance abuse, school problems, social isolation). Educational diagnosis (influence of peers, home, school). Use of firearms as most popular method of suicide of both age groups.
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"Suicide Among Youth and the Elderly
This research paper will present, compare and contrast the topic of suicide among the youth and the elderly. Focus will also include a description of an epidemiological, behavioral, and educational diagnosis.
Suicide Among the Youth
The CDC reported that the number of suicides in 1988 was 30,575 or 11.13 per 100,000 American population. Suicide is the eighth leading cause of death. Females attempt suicide more than males, and males die four times more (73% white males). Suicide is the third cause of death for those ages 15 to 24, the fourth leading cause of death for those ages 10 to 14 years, and rates increase with age (highest for 65 years and older) (NCIPC, 2001; The Surgeon General, 1999). Firearm-related suicides are the most popular..."
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Homophobia and Suicide in GLBT Youth, 2005.
Examines the stressors of being young and gay and the relationship of stress to suicidal ideation.
2,076 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 65.95
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This paper details the various stressors gay youth encounter when they 'come out' from parents, friends, school, and society in general. The paper ties these variables together and makes the argument for increased suicidal ideation in gay youth, citing the aforementioned stressors as antecedents.
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"Young people are particularly impressionable to the attitudes, ideologies, and norms of society, thus homosexual youth are affected by ?negative attitudes and hostile reactions of our society to homosexuality? (Chauvin et al,. 2000:9). Furthermore, society offers little in ways to seek refuge from homophobia and the attitudes it places upon the oppressed youth, and many areas require minors to have permission from their parents before engaging in therapy or attending gay/lesbian programs at outreach centers. ?The outcome of societal barriers along with negative responses to a homosexual orientation may facilitate a young gay or lesbian person to exhibit a low self-esteem, depression, and a generalized fear, consequently, resulting in a deteriorated and fragile identity on the part of a young homosexual person? (Chauvin et al., 2000:9-10)."
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Suicide Among Lesbian Youths, 1995.
Examines the causes and preventive measures for foster care situations. Discusses incidence, stress, depression and the role of social workers.
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"SUICIDE PREVENTION FOR LESBIANS IN FOSTER CARE
Introduction
The purpose of this paper is to examine the current literature on suicide prevention efforts designed for lesbian youth in foster care situations. The report provides context by examining the literature on the general problems faced by lesbian youth and the contribution of these problems to the development of suicidal feelings in general and to suicidal feelings in the foster care situation in particular. The report ends with a discussion of steps that can be taken to remediate the pressures leading to suicidal behavior for lesbian youth in foster care.
Suicide Among Lesbian Youths
Prevalence Rates and Causative Factors"
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Homosexuality and Roman Catholic Youth, 2008.
This paper reviews an article by Fr Robert Mattingly SJ entitled 'Gay Adolescents in Catholic Schools - Avoiding the Topic Won't Make It Go Away' printed in "Momentum".
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This paper explains that Fr. R. Mattingly, in his 2004 article in "Momentum", stresses that sex scandals within the Roman Catholic Church have forced attention on matters of sexuality that the Church has rarely wished to discuss beyond firm moralizing positions. The author points out that, although the Church still discusses homosexual acts as sinful, Mattingly reminds the reader of the stronger discussion of how all human beings are created in the image of God. The paper relates that, rather than criticizing homosexuality or failing to discuss it, the Church school community should ensure that gay students receive the inclusion and support they need. The author stresses that Mattingly also feels strongly that Roman Catholic schools should be sure that students can discuss matters of sexuality, homosexuality and heterosexuality.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Hazards of Ignoring Homosexuality
Whose Child is it Anyway?
A Positive Environment and Acceptance
Concluding Remarks
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"Accordingly to Mattingly, teachers and other adults must understand what happens when a homosexual youth is not included, not understood or denounced in different ways. When gay students are not given proper support they will experience self-destructive emotions and engage in self-destructive behaviors as what seems a usual set of results. He refers to social scientific research to explain that 40 percent or more of homeless youths in the United States are homosexuals, many of them engaged in substance abuse or confirmed addicts, and that many become HIV positive."
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Emile Durkheim- 'Suicide', 2002.
A term paper summarizing Durkheims "suicide". It is a paper that paraphrases what Durkheim actually meant when he wrote Suicide. Each paragraph covers Egotistic, Anomie, and Alturistic suicide.
1,876 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 60.95
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This essay focuses on the work of Durkheim entitled "Suicide. " The author attempts to understand Durkheim's work, the role of sociology in suicide, the ambiguity surrounding the definition of suicide and the forms of suicide.
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Suicide, Durkheim's third major work is of importance as it was his first attempt to bring empiricism into Sociology. Empiricism would provide a sociological explanation for phenomena such as suicide, which was traditionally regarded as restrictively psychological or biological. Durkheim defined the role of Sociology as comparable to Biology in natural science. Both disciplines study the normal or abnormal characteristics of phenomena, which affect the strength, or weakness of the organism. Sociology's main focus is to "study facts external to the individual" (Thompson 1985:92). When the term suicide comes to mind, we do not automatically link it with Sociology. Suicide can be argued to be a mental state, which is reserved mostly for the discipline of psychology. Durkheim looks at how this perceived mental state can be brought into Sociology by looking at elements such as family, occupations and social ties, all of which are a part of society and the root of Sociology. These elements are "always contemporaneous with some crisis which temporarily affects the social state" (Thompson 1985:95). Looking at society's groups, Durkheim noted that each "population had its own suicide rate, and that this rate is more constant than the general mortality".
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Adolescent Suicide, 2004.
In-depth study of adolescent suicide among minorities.
18,086 words (approx. 72.3 pages), 94 sources, APA, $ 249.95
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This paper studies the research available on the problem of suicide among minority youth. The paper looks at the possible causes of suicide, methods of prevention, risk factors, characteristics of people with suicidal tendencies, gender differences in suicide attempts, and a host of other pertinent aspects. The paper also dispels some of the myths surrounding the causes of suicide and considers the question of whether suicide can, at times, be acceptable.
Discussion of Adolescent Suicide in General
Theories of Minority Suicide
Risk Factors
Economic Status
Undiagnosed Mental Health Issues
Time, Season, Weather, and Suicide
Protective Factors
Preventing Suicide
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"One innovative theory on the subject of minority suicide is that, the complexity of suicide from the logical point of view remains unsettled. Neither common sense nor clinical psychopathology has established a fundamental or even a firmly experiential solution. Freud had made a similar declaration in 1918 in abridging a psychoanalytic conference on suicide in Vienna. Theories of suicide have not undergone enough magnification. Maybe the most that has been accomplished in the last twenty years has been a more happy unification of the sociologic and psychoanalytic information, as well as, augmented recognition that suicide is more a number of conditions than a separate psychologic entity."
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Suicide, 2008.
A comparison of the arguments of Immanuel Kant in "Suicide and Duty" and David Hume in "Of Suicide."
1,578 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper presents David Hume's argument against suicide as described in "Of Suicide." It discusses his arguments based on God's plan for human beings and the establishment of immutable laws that cannot be transgressed, although he does defend suicide in certain scenarios. It then discusses Immanuel Kant's argument against suicide in "Suicide and Duty" and his position that suicide can never be justified.
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"Kant (1930) provides the strongest position on the immorality of suicide. Although Hume (1874) defends suicide in certain cases, he based his entire argument in God's plan for human beings and the establishment of immutable laws that cannot be transgressed. Those laws are, in fact, providence, designed to protect human beings and guide them. The problem with Hume's (1874) argument is that in a universe that is completely controlled and determined by God, there is no choice for the human being. All that anyone can do is to accept and observe the laws. The whole argument depends on whether has faith in God. Kant's (1930) argument focuses on the human being as having a great deal of worth and as a person who is a moral agent. The person can commit suicide but the choice is made on the basis of a higher purpose which is that person's own purpose."
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"Le Suicide", 2007.
An analysis of Emile Durkheim's theories on suicide, as presented in his book, "Le Suicide".
754 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses "Le Suicide," Emile Durkheim's reportedly "flawed masterpiece" on suicide which was published in 1897. The paper describes Durkheim's theories on anomic suicide and egoistic suicide and discusses how they differ. The paper discusses Durkheim's comparison of the relation to marriage's effect on suicide's frequency to anomic and egoistic suicides.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Flawed Masterpiece
Durkheim's Explanations
A, if not "The" Central Theme
In Light of Suicide's Darkness
Conclusion
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"In Le Suicide, Durkheim purported that anomic suicide transpires when a person's existence is destitute of restrictions and recognition and by other individuals in society. "Anomic suicides, as Durkheim described them, destroy themselves in remorse over their abandonment by society, for they cannot support the loneliness of anonymity." (Siebers)"
"Durkheim contended that egoistic suicide evolves from a person no longer being able to conclude he/she has a reason for living. Egoistic suicides radically reject society, as they are dramatically removed from the "normal social justifications of existence." Egoistic, as well as, anomic suicides reportedly stem from society's inadequate presence in a person or their larger persona. "'Egoistic suicide,'" Durkheim concludes, "'results from man's no longer finding a basis for existence in life'." (Ibid)"
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Assisted Suicide, 2007.
An analysis of Plato's views on suicide and assisted suicide, as seen in his works.
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This paper discusses the views of the ancient philosopher, Plato, on suicide. The paper shows that his views, when examined in the context of assisted suicide, show his stance to be one of general disapproval, with a few exceptions. The paper examines his general views in "Phaedo," "Laws" and "The Republic" and then discuss the exceptions to his stance.
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"The only assisted suicide Plato would find acceptable based on his beliefs of suicide in general and on his beliefs regarding medical assistance, would be an assisted suicide for the terminally ill and disabled. Again, however, Plato's views on this matter suggest the decision to end the life of such a person would not be in the hands of the ill, but in the views of society in terms of the individual's ability to contribute to moral and social standards. Since the modern view of assisted suicide refers to an individual's choice to end life, such an act would be disapproved of by Plato. Only in cases where society views the individual as a burden, and thus, as an undesirable citizen, would such an assisted suicide be seen as morally acceptable. To assist an individual who is capable of contributing to society, but is simply unwilling to do so, would be morally reprehensible."
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Suicide Bombers: Who Are They?, 2007.
This paper studies the psychology and mindset of a suicide bomber.
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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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Sociological Approach to Suicide, 2004.
An analysis of whether suicide is an individual phenomenon or a societal construct through an examination of Emile Durkheim's theory on suicide.
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This paper explains how, according to the functionalist theory described by Emile Durkheim, suicide rates are social facts based on other established social facts and thus have a sociological basis. The writer points out that, as suicide rates are social facts, Durkheim sets out to provide an empirical basis of social explanation regarding suicide, providing a far different account of trends than the previously perceived notion that suicide is based purely on individual or psychological reasons. It shows how the phenomenon of what actually motivates the occurrence of suicide can be examined from a social perspective, implicating society as a factor in stimulating an individual to commit suicide.
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"As Henslin explains in Down to Earth Sociology, the study of sociology proposes several different events. He explains, societies structure and nuances are interrelated, society is dynamic and defined in history, and individuals can flourish in society through a system of selection. Thus, sociologists like Durkheim study the dynamics of society to account for historical and social justifications, finding relevance in social outcomes. In the case of suicide, Durkheim defines it as, ?all cases of death resulting directly of indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result,? excluding accidental deaths from this scenario. Upon Durkheim?s functionalist analysis of suicide rates, factoring in demographics, he accounted for distinct trends in the consistency of the rates, noting a series of social sets implying a collective tendency toward the results. He narrowed his theory on societal influence on suicide rates to sets defined by deviations in social behavior or moral behavior."
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Adolescent Depression and Suicide, 2005.
A discussion of various forms of teenage depression and resulting suicide.
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This paper examines why it is important to look at the problem of adolescent depression and suicide from the perspective of the different kinds of disorders that cause it. The writer claims that there is a need to study the ways that these disorders can be managed so that the depression can be reduced and the risk of suicide lessened. In order to do that, the paper examines major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, and bipolar disorder. It also includes a literature review that deals with treatment, including various approaches that are being used or have been used in the past to treat depression and the risk of suicide in the adolescent population. Suicide also has a section devoted to it, dealing with the various risk factors and why adolescents choose to take their own lives. Prevention is also discussed, and the usefulness of the research findings are dealt with and tied into the recommendations that will have to be made for the future of this issue.
Introduction
Types of Mood Disorders
Major Depressive Disorder
Risk Factors in Major Depression
Dysthymic Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Literature Review - Treatment of Mood Disorders
Validity and Reliability of Studies
Psychodynamic Approaches
Behavioral Approaches
Biological Approaches
Antidepressant Drugs
Drug Treatment for Bipolar Disorder
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Depression
Suicide
Why do Children and Adolescents Commit Suicide?
Who Commits Suicide?
Risk Factors for Suicide
How can Children/Adolescent Suicide be Prevented?
Usefulness in the Field of Social Work
How Useful are the Research Findings?
How Will These Findings Make a Difference for Practitioners?
Conclusion and Recommendations for Future Research
Works Cited
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"The different types of mood disorders are one of the most important things that should be discussed. These various mood disorders can all lead to depression. However, since depression can be caused by several things, it is vital that there is an understanding about the mood disorders, what they are, and what they mean for treatment options where adolescents are concerned. The first type of mood disorder is major depressive disorder. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is widely utilized to determine whether an individual may have major depressive disorder, and whether they have experienced a major depressive episode. An episode such as this can be indicated by various things, but generally it must have at least five of the following characteristics for two weeks or more: depressed mood; loss of interest or pleasure; significant weight or appetite change; insomnia or hypersomnia; psychomotor agitation or retardation; fatigue or loss of energy; feelings of inappropriate guilt or worthlessness; diminished ability to think or concentrate; and/or recurrent thoughts or death or suicide (Stanard, 2000)."
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