Helplessness, Hopelessness, and Despair: Identifying the Precursors to Indian Youth Suicide.

Johnson, Troy; Tomren, Holly

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ERIC Number: EJ595816

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Helplessness, Hopelessness, and Despair: Identifying the Precursors to Indian Youth Suicide.

Johnson, Troy; Tomren, Holly

American Indian Culture and Research Journal, v23 n3 p287-301 1999

Discusses suicide among American Indian youth. Examines Indian youth suicide rates, general characteristics of Indian suicides, behavioral characteristics and environmental stresses, guidelines for planning interventions, the use of American Indian culture to engage at-risk youth, and the high risk status of Indian foster children in non-Indian homes. (SV)

Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indians, At Risk Persons, Cultural Maintenance, Foster Children, Individual Characteristics, Intervention, Preadolescents, Psychological Patterns, Suicide, Young Adults, Youth Problems

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: Theme issue title: "Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans."