Pathfinder: Teen Suicide Prevention

Teen suicide prevent: Suicide is a growing problem among American teens ages 13-17. It is important for anyone who is contemplating suicide or knows someone struggling with suicidal tendencies to be educated on the subject and understand what steps to take to receive help. This paper will cover what suicide is, the symptoms of suicide, options for people who feel suicidal, and suicide statistics. The paper will focus on current suicide problems in America. It will be to a degree comprehensive of how to deal with teen suicide. It is impossible for the paper to be completely comprehensive because suicide affects every person differently.

These are 5 terms that can be used in addition to teen suicide prevention for further information.

suicide and stress, suicide and mental disease, suicide prevention, suicide statistics, suicide facts

Use reliable sources, especially for statistics. There are multiple organizations that provide information on suicide prevention and statistics. Do not use assisted-suicide. This is irrelevant to teen suicide prevention.

These are 12 additional phrases and keywords to be used when searching and learning about teen suicide prevention.

Suicide, Abnormal psychology, depression and bi polar disorder, suicide prevention, teen suicide, suicide control, suicide survivors, youth suicide, suicide facts, suicide statistics

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There are online videos about suicide bombing; however there is no online video on teen suicide that would be helpful to a paper on teen suicide prevention. Any video that may exist will be too graphic.

”Silent Teen Suicide Epidemic” is a PBS movie that can be rented through Access PA.

These are four specific sites of importance.

CDC Fact Sheet: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/suifacts.htm This site provides suicide facts and statistics that are provided by the national center for injury prevention and control. This is a government organization which should provide regulated and well researched information.

CDC suicide facts: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/suifacts.htm The center for disease control and prevention provides a search engine in which statistics and facts about suicide can be found. This is a government organization which should provide regulated and well researched information.

AFSP statistics:http://www.afsp.org/statistics/home.htm  The National Center for Health Statistics provides statistics about suicide that can be divided into age group, gender, and geographic areas. This is a good site because all the information is proven by a well respected foundation.

DBSA Suicide Prevention: http://www.dbsalliance.org/info/suicide.html  Depression and Bi polar Support alliance provides internet links and numbers that help people struggling with suicidal feelings understand suicidal thinking, facts about treatments, how to help others, how to create a plan, and to recognize the warning signs.

Below, there are blogs regarding suicide. However, these blogs are subjective by nature and the content may be subjective.These are resources from which general opinions can be read.

When I’m Gone; Thon 2005: http://whengone.blogspot.com/2005/08/suicide-prevention-blog.html This is a suicide prevention blog.

 
Suicide Survivor:http://www.queenbethyboo.blogspot.com/  This is a blog on people who have survived suicide. Surviving suicide means that the person knows someone who has committed suicide.

Human interactions are the key to healing after great loss: http://survivingsuicide.blogspot.com/ This is another blog on people who have survived suicide which has been an active blog since 2002.

Name: Ronald w Maris, Ph.D.
Field: Psychology
Contact: Maris@SC.edu
Credentials: Dr. Maris offers expert opinions in suicide death investigation, suicide risk assessment and prediction, contested life insurance, product liability (especially for psychotropic drugs), manner of death determination (suicide v. homicide v. accident), jail/prison suicides, hospital suicides, medical and psychological malpractice, workman compensation, murder-suicides, and the standard of care for suicidal patients/clients.  The Suicide Center has affiliated physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, and social workers.

Name: Marc D. Feldman, MD - Psychiatry/Psychology Expert
Field:Psychiatry and Pain Management
Contact: Birmingham, AL Tel: 205-975-8093 Fax: 205-591-4420    
Credentials: Board-certified, Ivy-trained, award-winning University Professor and practitioner in general psychiatry and pain management. 4 books, 80 publications, 20 years academic, managed care, insurance and private practice. Malpractice, Malingering, Suicide, Munchausen, Psychopharmacology, and Disability.
 

Name: Mace Beckson, MD
Field:Psychiatry and Forensics
Contact: Los Angeles, CA Tel: 310-966-1907 Fax: 310-477-0661    
Credentials: UCLA Forensic Faulty; Distinguished Fellow APA; Board Certified Addiction/Forensic Psychiatry; Med. Dir. Psych. Intensive Care, VA West LA; Expert Reviewer, Ca Med Board; Expert Witness/IME; specializing in Alcohol/Drugs, Suicide, Violence, Threat/Risk Assessment, Sexual Misconduct, Psychiatric Malpractice, Impaired Physician, Sexual Addiction/Offenses, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder