Essays on Suicide Prevention

It is very unfortunate that over one million people each year die by suicide globally. 1.8% of the deaths witnessed worldwide are as results of suicide (Wasserman et al., 2016). Suicide has proved to be a global phenomenon. The risk factors for suicide are; being a victim of violence, abuse, bullying, and loss of job, serious illness, and death of a close friend or relative (Mishara & Kerkhof, 2013). This, therefore, calls for both evidence-based and effective interventions to be implemented across the world to avert suicide and suicidal attempts. Psychotherapies are one of the methods that can be used ...

The prevalence of teen suicide is a growing concern in the healthcare industry, as it is ranked as the 2nd highest cause of death among the teenagers (Jason Foundation, 2016). Generally, the suicide rates in the United States continue to raise concern, as it is ranked tenth cause of death in the country. While the incidences of suicide had significantly decreased in the ‘90’s, this trend has now reverted, as there is an increase in suicide deaths. AFSP (2016) argues that statistics indicating the prevalence and incidences of suicide in the United States could be an underrepresentation, as ...

ABSTRACT

Transgenderism is a topic of heated and continuous debate for some time. There are people all around the world every day who are struggling with their gender identity. For adults it is hardly easy, for youths who experience this issues it can be mentally and physically harmful as they struggle. Transgendered youths are a group deemed to be at great risk of depression and suicide. Research shows that much of their issues they face include lack of acceptance, exclusion, physical abuses and discrimination that lead these youths into patterns of social anxieties, self harm and even suicide. The statistics ...

Purpose of the Study

The purpose of this study is to find the connection between depression and suicide among youth, identify the percentage of young people that are affected by the depressive disorder and the percentage of those suffering from depression that have suicidal intentions. It is important to study this issue because mental illness and following suicide attempts is a wide-spread complicated problem all around the world nowadays.

Research Question/Hypothesis

Research questions of this study are as follows: What is the percentage of young people that suffer from depressive disorder? What is the percentage of depressed youth that have thoughts of suicide? Can depression ...

The two crises management are school-based and human-made disasters. The school-based systemic crises focus on suicide prevention programs for youths living in the urban settings. Julie Goldstein Grumet and Melanie M. Brown conducted the research to determine the problem’s severity and what measures are in place to curb it. They received grant funding to conduct the study on American students from different backgrounds (Brown & Grumet, 2009). The human-made disaster systemic crises focus on the impact of manmade and natural disasters on household welfare. Yasuyuki Sawada uses the Asian economic crisis, tsunami disasters, and earthquakes. The main focus of ...

Mental Illness Among Criminals

The prison systems have been over populated by many criminals in our country. The increasing rate of prisoners who have been diagnosed with mental illness is increasing. Many criminals have either been diagnosed with mental illness before being arrested and put into prison or they were diagnosed with mental issues after being incarcerated. The inmates with mental illness while committing crimes may have done so because of their illness. The people who were incarcerated and then diagnosed could have had mental problems because of the prisons system they are now living in. It can cause inmates to become depressed, ...

Religion has an enormous influence on any given society. Religion has been widely praised for promoting prosocial behaviors among individuals in society(Moore, 2015). Psychologists as well have acknowledged the benefits religion has to our lives such as reducing the rates of depression. In Sociology as well, religion has been long recognized for its effect of promoting prosocial attitudes and behaviors. It does this by regulating behavior and coming up with norms and values that integrate people into the society. Emile Durkheim proposed that religion has a prosocial influence of decreasing suicide via establishing values and norms by which ...

Gay and lesbian issues

The purpose of this book was to explain how the Suicides among gay teens have become very common in males, with United States of America being at the receiving end. The author Chuck Stewart who is also a lecturer in Ohio explains how there are many causes that lead to these suicides. Stigma is one of the major causes of high number of suicides because the victims are victimized through various ways whereby the internet turns out to be the major tool of victimization. In 2006, World Health Organization released a report which indicated that over a million people commit suicide every ...