This pamphlet is designed to assist school personnel in dealing with youth suicide by providing information, and prevention, intervention, and postvention activities. The foreword briefly covers problems facing adolescents that may lead to suicide, and mentions the after effects on the family, school, and community. A message from New York…

Although over 5,000 children and adolescents commit suicide annually, little is known about suicidal thinking of normal children. Due to ethical considerations, researchers must be sensitive to the possibility that they could introduce suicide as an option to a child. A methodology was developed to examine suicidal thinking through projected…

In this study, the effectiveness of a Visiting Nurse counseling program with the adolescent suicide attempter is examined. Both experimental and control subjects represented all socioeconomic groups. The nurses who worked with the control group had no special training, and were not encouraged to counsel the adolescents. Those working with the…

The pamphlet discusses methods of recognizing and responding to behavior that can culminate in suicide, with emphasis on adolescents and young adults. Incidence and types of behavior--self-assaultive, self-destructive, and suicidal--are described, clues to aid in the identification of potential suicides are provided, and ten preventive steps are…

Statistical analysis of the data in this research project indicates that neither the physical, emotional, nor intellectual cycles can be used to predict suicide behavior and also that biorhythms are influenced by environmental variations. (DS)

This paper examines the informal consensus that psychological dysfunction, manifested by suicide and divorce, is unusually high among the occupational group of police officers. Results indicate that those officers studied may, in fact, have lower psychological dysfunction rates than presumed. (Author)

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPI) of 36 patient suicides were compared with two matching control groups. Female suicides differed significantly from all male groups and from both female control groups. These differentiating patterns emerged from a population of voluntary psychiatric patients and would not necessarily be…

High school students (N=120) read versions of teenager's death in which teenager lived either with both parents or with divorced mother, and died from either a rare disease or suicide. Students reported comparatively negative attitudes toward suicide victims and families and toward divorced parents and their children. Combination of divorce and…

Investigated relationship between suicidal adolescent girls (N=40) and borderline phenomena, and examined separation anxiety in suicidal girls. Results suggest that adolescent suicide is a borderline phenomena that has its roots in the early separation-individuation phase of development, resulting in separation anxiety. (Author/ABB)

Examined suicides from 1973 to 1979. Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas were associated with an unusually low risk of suicide before, during, and after the holiday. New Year's Day, July 4th, and Labor Day were associated with a low risk of suicide before the holiday and a high risk just afterwards. Only white teenagers deviated from this…

Student murder and suicide are traumatic experiences for schools. The first article explains how a Massachusetts high school coped with the murder of a popular student by her boyfriend, a classmate. The second article examines the adolescent suicide crisis and offers prevention strategies. (MLH)

The Kalevala, Finland's national epic, is a crucial element of Finnish cultural identity and important to Finnish culture. Violence, death, and suicide are often repeated themes in Finnish folklore. The Kalevala provides insight into past attitudes toward death. Traditions passed through generations have influenced people's attitudes toward…

While state per capita expenditures for public welfare, state divorce rates, state population change rates, and percentage of persons with annual incomes between $10,000 and $19,999 accounted for .73 of explained variance in state suicide rates, effects of state per capita expenditures for public welfare were not very important when other…

Compared 163 patients who were either first-time attempters or repeaters with a history of previous attempts. A six-month follow-up indicated four suicides in the repeaters' group and none in the first cases' group. Repeaters appeared to be much more dependent than first cases on professional care and to present a high short-term risk for suicide.…

Examined the counselor response skill measured by the Suicide Intervention Response Inventory. Inventories completed by 457 paraprofessional counselors from five suicide and crisis intervention services were factor-analyzed to yield their simple structure. Results suggest that the instrument is multifactorial, with four component factors…