Practical Strategies for Preventing Adolescent Suicide
By Keith A. King, Ph.D., C.H.E.S.
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 13, Number 3, 2006, Pages 8-11, Item# A133-KING
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A comprehensive approach to suicide prevention is needed to effectively address the problem of teen suicide. These programs should include prevention, intervention, and postvention levels. This article describes these levels and provides practical strategies that community, mental and social health professionals can use within each level to help prevent suicidal behavior among youth. Specific emphasis is placed on building protective factors, developing positive connections, identifying suicide warning signs, encouraging youth to become proactive, and preventing copycat suicides. All strategies are based on a review of the professional literature.
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Teen Suicide Prevention
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 13, Number 3, 2006
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among our nation's adolescents. Additionally, nonlethal suicide attempts and suicide ideation increase the magnitude of this problem. This issue looks at the most recent trends in teen suicide, provides practical prevention strategies, overviews evidence-based suicide prevention programs, and then examines suicide and suicide prevention among American Indian and sexual minority youth.
This issue also featured these articles:
- • American Indian Youth Suicide Prevention, Pages 16-18
- • Practical Strategies for Preventing Adolescent Suicide, Pages 8-11
- • Preventing Suicide Risk Among Sexual Minority Youth, Pages 19-20
- • Youth Suicide Prevention Programs, Pages 12-15
- • Youth Suicide: A Review, Pages 3-7
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