Parasuicide

Consequently, due to these unique challenges and strengths faced by the young veteran population, the veteran population encompasses unique needs. The need for mental health care is higher in the veteran population than the average civilian due to situational exposure (Institute of Medicine, 2013). In a search for young veteran needs, one of the first things that will come up within the search is access to behavioral and mental health care. This increased need for access is because young…

Every day in our nation theres and average of over 5,240 attempts of suicide by gradeds between 7-12 graders. The title of the book I read was 13 reasons why by Jay Asher. The symbole of the book is the color Blue wich represents depression. The main character of the book is Clay Jensen, He had a crush on the girl that commited suicide Hannah Baker. Hannah Backer was a girl that go bullied a lot at school so she ended up getting depressed and committed suicided. She talked on these really old…

The article, Measuring the Suicidal Mind: Implicit Cognition Predicts Suicidal Behavior explored the implicit cognitive associations, of death/suicide, of participants who had attempted suicide and had arrived in the psychiatric emergency department. Researchers identified that one of main issues with the existing predictive measurements of suicidal behavior, was that it heavily relied on the self-reports of individuals. However, individuals may deceit clinicians into thinking that there is no…

Briggs (2014) spoke on the most important aspect of evaluating a client that is suicidal, “listen to understand,” also offering valuable information about what might be going on in a person’s mind in the final stage of wanting to leave this world. The video on Psychalive presents: The warning signs of suicide (2010) helped in interpreting the opinions and emotions some individuals face when thinking about dying. In answer to question client in need of hospitalization, and my steps. The…

The study on suicide ideation and suicide attempt, which was the thesis of this article focused on the consequences of multiple adverse life experiences, included male and female adolescents at an urban juvenile detention facility in Ohio (Bhatta, Jefferis, Kavadas, Alemagno & Shaffer-King, 2014). The four adverse life events which were the primary focus of the study are: (1) sexual abuse, (2) homelessness, (3) running away, and (4) substance abuse in the family. The authors believe that an…

Suicidal thoughts are just the beginning. How did they get to the conclusion of suicide? Well, many uncontrollable factors colliding, the end results are victims feeling they have no other path to take. The current predicament is that we have too much people ending their lives. The purpose of these performances in the tunnel is to inform about how big this whole situation is and hopefully people can experience what the victims go through. All of this is to hopefully educate different groups of…

Actions Speak Louder Than Words Suicide is the third leading cause of death in today's youth. More adolescents resort to taking their own lives because of several reasons such as bullying and depression. It is important to realize the affect we have on the lives of others and realize that success is based on value. Our value comes from the way people see us as human beings and how we act towards them. Treat others the way you want to be treated. In the book, Thirteen Reasons Why, the author Jay…

In the recently released tv shows called thirteen reasons why was about following the life of a high school girl that had committed suicide. She recorded thirteen audiotapes with each add a reason to her suicide. Hannah left these tapes behind for her friend who delivers them to all the characters, who each had a part to the reason why she took her life. Before comparing this show to Kant’s Categorical Imperative, we need to understand the theories first. Kant's Categorical Imperative is “Act…

Suicide is stupid, but according to Ugnar (2011), many young people have suicidal thoughts and gestures daily. "Problems that precipitate suicide are usually temporary ones — unfortunately, suicide is a permanent solution to these temporary troubles.” Difficulties in life may occur to an extreme extent and may compel one to commit suicide; however, good times still happen (counselingcenter.utk.edu, n.d.). Teenage suicide has always been a problem in the society as it is the second leading…

Amanda, I liked reading your post. I thought that it was very interesting to see the statics of the non-Indian vs. Indian. The reason that I thought it was interesting was because it was not a general statistic, but it was a very specific one. The particular subject was that interested me was the talk about suicide. “American Indian adolescents are four times more likely than non Indians to attempt suicide (Russell, 1997 pg. 300). Suicide is something that has to be addressed because it…