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Title: Teenage Suicide


1
Teenage Suicide
  • Chapter 9
  • Lesson 2 3
  • Pages. 230-237

2
Suicide Prevention and Getting Help
  • Objective 1 List the warning signs of suicide
  • Objective 2 Determine strategies to prevent
    suicides and strategies for coping with
    depression.
  • Objective 3 Tell early detection and warning
    signs that prompt individuals of all ages to seek
    mental health care.
  • Objective 4 Describe methods for addressing
    critical mental health issues.
  • Objective 5 Select available mental health
    services in the community.

3
Facts Myths on Suicide
  1. People who talk about suicide dont commit
    suicide
  2. Suicide happens without warning
  3. Suicidal people are fully intent on dying
  4. Once a person is suicidal, they are suicidal
    forever
  5. Improvement following a suicidal crisis means
    that a suicide risk is over
  6. Every person who commits suicide is mentally ill.
  7. Suicide is more common among the lower
    socio-economic groups
  8. Suicide is caused by one very traumatic loss in
    the victims life.
  9. There is nothing you can do to stop a suicide.

4
Teenage Suicide
  • Suicide The intended taking of ones own life.
  • The rate of reported suicides among young people
    has nearly tripled in the last 30 years and
    continues to increase
  • More than 90 of the people who kill themselves
    are suffering from depression or another mental
    disorder or are abusing alcohol/drugs (pg.230).
  • MSNBC Video (Teenage Suicide)
  • http//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/265143902
    6514390

5
Causes of teen suicide(yellow text book 117)
  • Deep Gloom
  • Loneliness
  • Hopelessness of Depression
  • Young people may attempt suicide because they
    think that lifes bad feelings will last forever.
  • Having an unrealistic, romantic view of death
  • Feeling like a failure
  • Inability to express anger or pain

6
Other reasons teens may attempt suicide (Yellow
textbook 117)
  • Lacking firm values or rules on which to base
    life decisions
  • Suffering a loss and seeing no end to deep grief
  • Having a relative or friend commit suicide
  • Trying to impress another person with the urgency
    of their feelings.
  • video, Myspace Suicide
  • http//www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id4624609nta
    gmncollst4

7
The vast majority of those who attempt suicide do
not want to die they are suffering and are
making a plea for help!
8
Did you know?
  • Four males commit suicide to every 1 female, and
    represent 79.4 of all U.S suicides.
  • Firearms are the most commonly used method of
    suicide among males (57.6)
  • Females attempt suicide 2-3 times as often as
    males do
  • Poisoning is the most common method of suicide
    for females (39.1)
  • http//www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/Suicide-
    DataSheet-a.pdf

9
Recognizing the verbal warning signs (pg. 231)
  • Direct statements (I want to die, I dont want to
    live anymore, I wish I were dead)
  • Indirect statements (I wont have to put up with
    this much longer, theyll be sorry when Im gone,
    soon the pain will be over)
  • Writing poems, songs, or diary entries that deal
    with death
  • Suicide threats or insinuations

10
Recognizing the nonverbal or behavioral signs
(pg. 231)
  • An unusual obsession with death
  • Withdrawal from friends
  • Giving away personal belongings
  • Deterioration in schoolwork or recreational
    activities.
  • Dramatic changes in personality, hygiene, or
    appearance.
  • Substance abuse

11
Use C.L.U.E.S. to remember how to help someone
suffering emotionally (pg. 232)
  • Connect (make contact)
  • Listen (active listening skills)
  • Understand (empathize with their feelings)
  • Express concern (say that you care and stay with
    the person)
  • Seek help (encourage the person to talk to an
    adult and you tell an adult yourself)

12
Getting Helppg. 234
  • Knowing when to get help!
  • You feel trapped or you worry all the time
  • Your feelings affect your sleep, eating habits or
    school work
  • Your friends and family express concern
  • You are becoming involved with alcohol and drugs
  • You are becoming increasingly aggressive, violent
    or reckless

13
Activity
  • What would you do in these Scenario's?
  • Scenario 1 You are on the phone talking to
    your friend and he/she tells you that they are
    having another horrible day and that they are
    going to commit suicide.
  • Scenario 2 You and your friend are in the
    hallway and he/she tells you again that they feel
    no love from his her parents and that he/she
    hopes that they miss me when Im gone.

14
Worksheets
  • Pass out worksheet, Warning Signs
  • Pass out worksheet, Active Listening

15
Interactive Study Guide
  • http//glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/00787
    26549/359992/InterActCh9Ls2.html

16
Online Quiz
  • http//glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078726549/st
    udent_view0/chapter9/online_quizzes.html
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