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Direct linkPrice, James H.; Thompson, Amy J.; Khubchandani, Jagdish; Mrdjenovich, Adam J.; Price, Joy A. – Academic Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: Most suicides (60%) are committed with firearms, and most (80%) of individuals attempting suicide meet diagnostic criteria for mental illness. This study assessed the prevalence of firearm injury prevention training in psychiatric residency programs. Methods: A three-wave mail survey was sent to the directors of 179 psychiatric…
Descriptors: Weapons, Prevention, Physicians, Mental Disorders
Hopwood, Christopher J.; Grilo, Carlos M. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2010
Ostensible psychiatric comorbidity can sometimes be explained by shared relations between diagnostic constructs and higher order internalizing and externalizing dimensions. However, this possibility has not been explored with regard to comorbidity between personality pathology and other clinical constructs in adolescents. In this study,…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Psychopathology, Personality
Finlay, Judy; Hardy, Micheal; Morris, Donny; Nagy, Anna – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2010
"Mamow-Sha-way-gi-kay-win": North-South Partnership for Children represents a coalition of individuals and organizations from southern Ontario who have partnered with First Nations Chiefs, community leaders, Elders, youth and community members from 30 remote northern communities. The collective goal of the Partnership is to learn from…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Canada Natives, Residential Schools, Suicide
Download full textMcCarthy, John; Bruno, Michelle; Fernandes, Teresa E. – Professional Counselor, 2011
The prevalence of depression increases markedly during adolescence, yet many youth are not receiving the support that they need. One factor that has been speculated as contributing to low rates of care is a lack of mental health literacy about depression and viable sources of support. This pilot study focused on mental health literacy as it…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Adolescents, Mental Health, Vignettes
Sarche, Michelle C., Ed.; Spicer, Paul, Ed.; Farrell, Patricia, Ed.; Fitzgerald, Hiram E., Ed. – Praeger, 2011
This unique book examines the physical, psychological, social, and environmental factors that support or undermine healthy development in American Indian children, including economics, biology, and public policies. American Indian and Alaska Native youth suffer disproportionately higher rates of trauma, substance abuse, and youth suicide. At the…
Descriptors: Expertise, Evidence, Health Services, Substance Abuse
Borges, Guilherme; Benjet, Corina; Medina-Mora, Maria Elena; Orozco, Ricardo; Nock, Matthew – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2008
The study examines data from the Mexican Adolescent Mental Health Survey to study the prevalence and risk factors for suicide ideation, plan, and attempt among Mexican adolescents. The results reveal patterns of the risk factors and suggest that intervention should focus on adolescents with mental disorders to effectively prevent suicides.
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Mental Health, Suicide, Risk
Vitiello, Benedetto; Brent, David A.; Greenhill, Laurence L.; Emslie, Graham; Wells, Karen; Walkup, John T.; Stanley, Barbara; Bukstein, Oscar; Kennard, Betsy D.; Compton, Scott; Coffey, Barbara; Cwik, Mary F.; Posner, Kelly; Wagner, Ann; March, John S.; Riddle, Mark; Goldstein, Tina; Curry, John; Capasso, Lisa; Mayes, Taryn; Shen, Sa; Gugga, S. Sonia; Turner, J. Blake; Barnett, Shannon; Zelazny, Jamie – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2009
Objective: To examine the course of depression during the treatment of adolescents with depression who had recently attempted suicide. Method: Adolescents (N = 124), ages 12 to 18 years, with a 90-day history of suicide attempt, a current diagnosis of depressive disorder (96.0% had major depressive disorder), and a Children's Depression Rating…
Descriptors: Prevention, Suicide, Rating Scales, Adolescents
Halderman, Brent L.; Eyman, James R.; Kerner, Lisa; Schlacks, Bill – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2009
A three-stage paradigm for telephonically assessing suicidal risk and triaging suicidal callers as practiced in an Employee Assistance Program Call Center was investigated. The first hypothesis was that the use of the procedure would increase the probability that callers would accept the clinician's recommendations, evidenced by fewer police…
Descriptors: Employee Assistance Programs, Suicide, Probability, Telecommunications
Callanan, Valerie J.; Davis, Mark S. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2009
There is disagreement in the suicide literature on the value of suicide notes as a data source, particularly regarding the extent to which suicide decedents who write notes differ from those who do not. Using 10 years of suicide cases from Summit County, Ohio, these two groups were compared on 40 variables including sociodemographic…
Descriptors: Health Conditions, Suicide, Comparative Analysis, Letters (Correspondence)
Davis, Mark S.; Callanan, Valerie J.; Lester, David; Haines, Janet – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2009
Few theories on suicide have been grounded in the norm of reciprocity. There is literature on suicide, however, describing motivations such as retaliation and retreat which can be interpreted as modes of adaptation to the norm of reciprocity. We propose a reciprocity-based theory to explain suicides associated with relationship problems. Employing…
Descriptors: Prevention, Suicide, Statistical Data, Content Analysis
Taliaferro, Lindsay A.; Rienzo, Barbara A.; Pigg, R. Morgan, Jr.; Miller, M. David; Dodd, Virginia J. – Journal of American College Health, 2009
Objective: This study explored whether specific dimensions of spiritual well-being (religious well-being and existential well-being) relate to reduced suicidal ideation, and whether associations persisted after controlling for religiosity and psychosocial variables associated with suicide. Participants: Participants were 457 college students who…
Descriptors: College Students, Prevention, Suicide, Regression (Statistics)
Zenere, Frank J.; Lazarus, Philip J. – School Psychology Review, 2009
An 18-year longitudinal case study of the suicide rates of students attending a large, urban, multicultural school district between 1989 and 2006 is described. The high rate of suicide (5.5 per 100,000 students ages 5-19) in the district during the period 1980-1988 led to the development and implementation of a district-wide Youth Suicide…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, Suicide, Incidence
Ghazinour, Mehdi; Emami, Habib; Richter, Jorg; Abdollahi, Mohammad; Pazhumand, Abdolkarim – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2009
Different methods of poisoning used by individuals with the diagnosis of parasuicide admitted to the Loghman Hospital, Tehran, from 2000 to 2004 were investigated, with particular focus on gender and age differences. Drugs, pesticides, and other agricultural chemicals (women: 12.7%, men: 9%) were the most commonly used methods. In males, the…
Descriptors: Females, Narcotics, Hospitals, Poisoning
Weizman, Tal; Yagil, Yaron; Schreiber, Shaul – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2009
Based on Durkheim's "Control theory," we explored the association between frequency of terror attacks in Israel and the frequency of suicide attempts admitted to the Emergency Room of a major general hospital in Tel-Aviv (1999-2004). Analysis of the six-year study period as a whole revealed no significant correlation between the…
Descriptors: Suicide, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Social Environment
MacDonald, Ryan; Taylor, John; Clarke, Diana – Journal of Adolescence, 2009
This paper employs community-level data to examine the relationship between suicide behaviors, measured at age eleven, and two mental health outcomes assessed nine-years later. Specifically, we assess the role and significance of suicide ideation and suicide attempts in substance dependence and depressive symptomatology. We evaluate these linkages…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Suicide, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology)
