Pathfinder: Teen Suicide Prevention

The five organizations listed below can be found in the specific web sites part of this blog.

Depression and Bipolar Support alliance: http://www.dbsalliance.org/

The National Center for Health Statistics:www.cdc.gov/nchs/

Center for Disease Control and Prevention: www.cdc.gov

Youth Violence and Suicide Prevention Team of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control:Section under Center for Disease Control and prevention

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control: www.cdc.gov/ncipc

Safe Youth: www.safeyouth.org

This is one full text journal regarding psychological issues, such as teen suicide.

Psychology Today: http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/PsychologyToday Psychology Today is a magazine that is kept as an online journal at keepmedia.com. This site is important because it keeps up to date information about current psychological issues and progress in the field of psychology.

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Two direct sites for primary information and one resource.

The story of “WR”: http://www.collegepubs.com/ref/Suicide_Prevention.shtml Case Study on “WR”. The student “WR” committed suicide years ago. This case study was prepared at the time of suicide by a college administrator who tried to understand the circumstances.

Suicide Prevention Service: http://www.spsfv.org/letter.htm An original suicide letter from a student who committed suicide.

Police report: Police reports are filed for suicides. Documents from government or public service authorities maybe aquired. Release of such documentation may be granted if requested.

These are 4 major guide sites (web subject directories) about teen suicide with annotations.

Suicide Prevention Resource Center: http://www.sprc.org/ The suicide prevention resource center has reliable information about suicide and a search option to get to the information being looked for readily.

All Psych Online: http://allpsych.com/dictionary/ This web site is an online psychology dictionary that can be used to look up medical definitions.

National Center for Injury Provention and Control: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/suifacts.htm This site contains a fact sheet with statistics on suicide in the United States emphasizing on the high rate among the elderly and the young. It also provides information on suicide prevention programs and publications of the CDC covering older adults, Native Americans, Black youth, and teens. There are links to related sites and references. From the CDC’s Youth Violence and Suicide Prevention Team of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

These online databases are subscription services (password needed). 

Galenet databases http://infotrac.galegroup.com/menu
Facts.com
EBSCOHost

This resource is offered by libraries on the subject of suicide.

Psychology Today: Journal that has information on current psychological issues including suicide.

These are the subtopics and numbers associated with teen suicide. The critically important titles are anotated. 

Biographical Dictionary of Psychology. (REF BF109 .A1 B56)

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV-TR. (REF RC455.2 .C4 D536) A great mental health reference. Used worldwide by all practitioners requiring diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia, dementia, and delirium, as well asfor sleep, mood, somatoform, and dissociative disorders.

DSM-IV Made Easy: the Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis. (REF RC469 .M676) “An extremely useful text….Morrison has put ‘life’ into the DSM-IV criteria with his strategic use of strong vignettes and important ‘tips’ for using psychiatric code….A real contribution to the thorny problem of constructing meaningful descriptions of patients’ difficulties.” –Jane Close Conoley, Ph.D.

Encyclopedia of Mental Health. 3 volumes. (REF RA790 .E53)

Encyclopedia of Psychology. 8 volumes. (REF BF31 .E52) Great resource for looking up unknown terms and biographies of renowned psychologists.

Magill’s Encyclopedia of Social Science: Psychology. 4 volumes. (REF BF31 .M33)

Oxford Dictionary of Psychology. (REF BF31 .C64)

Survey of Social Science. Psychology Series. 6 volumes. (REF BF31 .S79)

The following are the numbers that most reference books on teen suicide are shelved. 

Library of Congress:

BF- Psychology

RC 321 – 576 –Psychiatry

Dewey:

128

362.2

616.8

To comprehend teen suicide, one must first understand what suicide is. Explaining the process of suicide and its ramifications or implications is essential for gathering additional information for teen suicide prevention.