Discusses social isolation as a major factor in determining how youth are increasingly put at risk for both immediate and lifelong difficulties and examines three at-risk situations that counselors face to better understand the origins and implications affecting assessment and interventions. Presents practical implications for how school and…

Interviews parasuicide patients in 13 European countries to study self-reported intention involved in parasuicide. The main findings is that parasuicide patients in different countries tend to indicate that similar types of intentions are involved in their acts of parasuicide, and that the intentions do not vary greatly with gender or age.…

Psychological buffers were evaluated for their relative contributions to adolescents' perceived risk for suicide. Orthodoxy--commitment to core beliefs--emerged as the single strongest correlate after controlling for the effects of other buffers. The effect of depression on perceived suicide risk was moderated by the adolescent's degree of…

Discusses how teachers can identify those students at risk of suicide and suggests ways of offering sources of hope to students. (MG)

Attempts to provide a preliminary suicide postvention model for a faculty suicide in a counseling department. Looks at presuicide dynamics within the department and at postsuicide reactions of faculty, administration, and students. Explains need for a postvention policy. (Author/NB)

This study surveyed school counselors in 129 high schools to examine factors in student suicidal behaviors. Of 40,805 students, 42 suicide-related events were reported, 8 of which involved gifted students. None was a completed suicide. Variables such as sex, race, family status, extracurricular activity, and nature of the attempt were considered.…

A children's social health index calculated from six aspects of social health indicates that the social health of children is deteriorating in the areas of infant mortality, child abuse, child poverty, teenage suicide, and high school dropouts. (SH)

Examined how circumstances of a suicide victim's life may influence people's responses in college students (n=180) who read a fictitious newspaper article about a man who committed suicide following psychological pain, physical pain, or terminal illness. Results indicated that subjects were intolerant of suicide when the victim was suffering from…

Interviewed 57 college students who had recently lost friend or relative by suicide, accident, homicide, or natural death. Those bereaved through suicide or accidental death, more than survivors of other types of deaths, said that people treated them differently after the death; those bereaved through accidents listed more positive responses from…

Briefly reviews literature on depression and suicide among children, concluding that many counselors who have not traditionally worked with depressed and suicidal children will need to acquire knowledge and skills in order to deal with these clients. Presents a case study to describe how mutual storytelling was used to help seven-year-old play…

Examined Canadian and West German successful suicides for the years 1974-1977. Found that each gender displayed its own unique pattern of methods of suicide and that each age group had its own unique pattern of methods within each gender group. Found different patterns in trends of suicide for each age x gender x country x method of suicide…

Utilizes a sample of 50 Black and 79 White females who committed suicide in Georgia in 1979 to compare the occupational distribution of Black and White female suicides. Finds that married Black female suicides are disproportionately represented in most occupations, indicating a possible interactive effect between occupation and marital stress…

When 58 creative college students were administered the Suicide Opinion Questionnaire and compared to 58 controls, the creative students showed greater agreement of endorsement on the "Mental Illness,""Right to Die,""Normality," and "Aggression" scales, and greater disagreement on the "Cry for Help,""Religion," and "Moral Evil" scales. (Author/JDD)

College students (N=142) viewed videotape of distressed high school student, then assessed student's potential for committing suicide, running away, entering therapy, or abusing alcohol. Subjects who were told that the teenager knew of two recent suicides in community rated her as more likely to commit suicide or run away than did subjects not…

Examined changes in the suicide rate of teenagers and young adults internationally from 1970 to 1980. Twenty-three nations experienced increases (with Norway experiencing the largest percentage increase), while six experienced decreases. Unlike general suicide rates, teenage suicide rates were not related to the quality of life in the nations…