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Trepal, Heather C.; Wester, Kelly L.; MacDonald, Colleen A. – Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples & Families, 2006
Postvention actions are commonly employed after completed suicides and suicide attempts but can be adapted to assist affected family members in dealing with other types of crisis. The authors adapt a postvention model to be applied to systemically working with families who have a member engaging in self-injurious behavior. Recommendations for…
Descriptors: Suicide, Models, Family (Sociological Unit), Crisis Intervention
Kenny, Dianna T.; Lennings, Christopher J.; Nelson, Paul K. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2007
Young offenders internationally have a higher incidence of mental health problems compared with adolescents in the general population. Mental health issues, particularly comorbid presentations, affect the response to and outcome of rehabilitation and hence recidivism of offending. Most information on the mental health of young offenders has…
Descriptors: Self Destructive Behavior, Substance Abuse, Early Intervention, Child Abuse
Star, Nonnie; Shadoff, Sander – 1996
This guide is designed to assist people with learning disabilities to recognize their disabilities and the connection between learning disabilities and substance abuse. It begins by defining learning disabilities and providing a self-test checklist for common signs and symptoms of learning disabilities. Difficulties with organization, memory,…
Descriptors: Adults, Coping, Disability Identification, Etiology
Lasaga, Jose I.; And Others – 1986
Patients' rights legislation makes the determination of possible danger to self and others extremely important for patients about to be discharged from mental institutions, especially patients who were admitted because of suicidal behavior. Because evaluation methods which rely on patient self-reports may be manipulated by clever patients, a new…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Evaluation Methods, High Risk Persons
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1989
This report addresses the issues delineated by the 70th Texas Legislature in directing the Central Education Agency to study the problem of youth suicide. "Causes and Factors Contributing to Youth Suicide" presents data on national suicide rates for 15- to 19-year-olds and deaths by suicide in Texas for children between the ages of 5 and 19.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Etiology
Bush, Patricia J.; Iannotti, Ronald J. – 1987
A 13-item adult risk taking scale was selected by factor analysis and internal reliability testing from 25 items administered to 270 urban adults (56% Black; 33% White; 11% Hispanic/other) stratified by socioeconomic status. Chronbach's alpha equaled 0.77. Five items refer to risk of injury, five to risk of illness, one to gambling, and two to…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Factor Analysis, Measures (Individuals)

Zirpoli, Thomas J.; Lloyd, John Wills – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1987
The literature review looks at self-injurious behaviors in handicapped students in terms of characteristics, prevalence, etiology (biological, psychological, and as learned behavior), and management including extinction, positive punishment, negative punishment, and reinforcement of other behaviors. Problems in areas of management, administration,…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Etiology

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly – Educational Horizons, 1987
The author discusses the adolescent experience and why adolescents engage in self-destructive behavior. He suggests some changes in the way that adults treat adolescents that could reduce adolescent behavior problems and self-abuse. (CH)
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Drinking, Early Parenthood

Holt, Camille B. – Educational Horizons, 1987
The author describes the formation of a citizens' group in Clarkesville, Tennessee, to educate the town's youth about the health risks of drug use. This group developed a curriculum entitled "I'm Special" designed to teach self-esteem and decision-making skills to fourth graders, to enable them to deal with peer pressure to try or use…
Descriptors: Children, Curriculum Development, Drug Education, Elementary Education

Smith, Kim; Crawford, Sylvia – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1986
Focuses on suicidal behaviors among 313 high school students. Provides a linchpin between studies of adolescent suicide attempt rates and studies reporting on percentages of adolescents who made suicide attempts. Suicide is a personal concern for most high school students, with 62.6% reporting some degree of suicidal ideation or action.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Depression (Psychology), High School Students

Peters, Debra K.; Range, Lillian M. – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 1996
Two studies of women who were sexually abused as children compared women who blame themselves to a high degree with women who blame themselves to a lesser degree. Findings show that high-self blamers were more depressed and suicidal than low self-blamers, making self-blame an important variable in understanding self-destructive behavior. (RJM)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Depression (Psychology), Females, Guilt

Glasser, William – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1990
Presents interview with Thomas Bratter, president of the John Dewey Academy, a residential, drug-free college preparatory therapeutic high school. Bratter describes the mission of the school as to provide intensive educational and therapeutic assistance to self-destructive adolescents who are psychologically intact and have superior potential.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, College Preparation, High School Students, High Schools

Tarnowski, Kenneth J.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Retardation, 1989
The study of staff acceptability of behavioral interventions for self injurious behavior (SIB) in persons with severe/profound mental retardation indicated that: accelerative interventions were more acceptable than reductive treatments; acceptability of treatments varied as a function of SIB severity; and client status and type of work setting did…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Ethics

Osgood, Nancy J.; And Others – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1989
Examined extent and nature of suicide, attempted suicide, and intentional life-threatening behavior in long-term care facilities and differences in patterns of suicidal behavior by gender, age, and race. Results from 463 facilities revealed sex differences in terms of method chosen, and age differences on type of suicidal behavior and likelihood…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Death, Institutionalized Persons, Nursing Homes

Buelow, George; Koeppel, John – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 1995
In a college student sample, significant correlations were found between students' alcohol abuse scores, blackout risk taking, and intrusiveness of stressful thoughts about the blackout incident. Men were significantly more likely than women to take risks during the blackout incident and to experience more stressful intrusive thoughts afterward.…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Drinking