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How many teenagers in the US know someone that has committed suicide?
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Nearly half of all teenagers.
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How many teenagers admit to attempting or seriously contemplating suicide in the US?
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One in every four.
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Is suicide among the 3 leading causes of death worldwide among people 15-44 years of age?
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Yes.
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What three types of integrated factors intersect to cause suicide?
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-Biological Factors
-Psychological Factors -Social Factors |
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What were Edwin Shneidman's 4 types of people who commit suicide?
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1) Death Seekers
2) Death Initiators 3) Death Ignorers 4) Death Darers |
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What is a death seeker?
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Someone who is clearly explicitly seeking to end their life.
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What is a death initiator?
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Someone who has clear intentions to die but believes that they are simply hastening an inevitable death.
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What is a death ignorer?
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Someone who intends to end their life but does not believe that this means the end of their existence.
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What is a death darer?
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Someone who is ambivalent about dying, and they take actions that greatly increase their chances of death but that do not guarantee they will die.
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What is a subintentional death?
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Acts in which people indirectly contribute to their own death, perhaps unconsciously.
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How many people who attempt but do not complete suicide actually seek help?
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Over half do not seek help
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What number is suicide in the leading causes of death in the US?
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8th .
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About how many people annually commit suicide?
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31,000 people.
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What percentage of people contemplate suicide at least once in their lives in the US?
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3 %
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What percentage of people report having suicidal thoughts at sometime in their lives in the US?
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5-6%
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How many more women attempt suicide than men?
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3 times as many.
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How many more men complete suicide than women?
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Four times as many.
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What forms of suicide do men choose?
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Men tend to choose more lethal means of suicide than women.
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What forms of suicide do women choose?
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Women are more likely than men to choose less lethal means of suicide, such as drug overdoses.
**HOWEVER guns are still the most common way for women to commit suicide. |
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What is one theory of why men complete more suicides than women?
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-Men are more likely than women to drink alcohol when they are highly depressed and may have more ready access to guns.
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Why does China stand out in suicide statistics?
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-In China, women account for 55% of all suicide deaths--making women the leader in suicides.
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Which ethnic group has the highest rates for suicide?
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European Americans
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Which ethnic group has the highest rates of suicides after European Americans?
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Native Americans.
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Why are Native Americans likely to commit suicide?
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Suicide among Native Americans is tied to povery, lack of eudcation and hope, discrimination, substance abuse, and easy availability to firearms.
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What has happened to the rates of suicides among African Americans in the last few decades?
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The rates of suicide among AAs has increased greatly.
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What stands out about Hispanic Americans and suicide in the US?
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Hispanic youth in the US are more likely to contemplate and attempt suicide than African American youth or European American youth.
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What is notorious of religious people and suicide?
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People who belong to a religion that expressly forbids suicide are less likely to attempt it.
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What are some reasons why suicide may be more common among people who are adolescence than children?
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-The rate of several types of psychopathology tied to suicide, including depression, anxiety disorders, and substance abuse increase in adolescence.
-Adolescents are more sophisticated in their thinking so they can contemplate it more -Adolescents may simply have the means to commit suicide more than children |
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What is one reason that African American suicide may be on the rise?
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African American youths typically have greater difficulty accessing treatments for mental problems.
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What are some examples of risk factors for suicide in adolescents?
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-Depression
-Interpersonal problems -Insecure relationships with parents -Negative thinking and hopelessness -Appetite problems -Increased substance abuse -Aggression -Suicide attempts by a friend -Gay and Bisexual youth |
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What are some reasons that college students may commit suicide?
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-Cannot make grades
-Cannot persue tough dreams -Cannot make friends -Cannot deal with homesickness -Cannot deal with the intense drug/alcohol subculture |
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Why are old people so good at committing suicide?
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They are much more likely to be successful than young people.
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What are some reasons that old people may commit suicide?
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-Loss of a spouse
-Illness -Being forced to live in a nursing home |
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What is the definition of suicide?
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-Death from injury, poisoning, or suffocation when there is evidence that the injury was self inflicted and that the decendent intended to kill him or herself.
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What are some reasons for the differences in suicide across cultures?
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May have to do with religious doctrines, stressors, and cultural norms about suicide.
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What are some factors that make suicide hard to understand?
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1) It is hard to study scientifically
2) Family members and friends may selectively remember certain information about the victim but forget other things 3) The majority of people that contemplate suicide never actually commit suicide so it is difficult to determine what causes people to go through the act. |
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How many peope leave suicide notes?
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About 1 in 4.
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In what mental state do suicides usually happen?
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Suicides often happen when people are not in the deepest depths of depression and despair, but, rather, when they seem to be getting better.
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What is the concept of "preventative action"?
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For people with long term mental disorders, the prospect of sinking once again into despair leads them to take "preventative action"- to kill themselves before it happens again.
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What is the Economic Hardship Theory?
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People who are chronically impoverished or who recently have lost a job are at increased risk for suicide.
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What is the Serious Illness Theory?
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People with serious illnesses are at increased risk for suicide.
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What is the Loss and Abuse Theory?
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People who have experienced loss and abuse in the distant or recent past are at increased risk for suicide.
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What does Durkheim's Theory of Suicide consist of?
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-Egotistic Suicide
-Anomic Suicide -Altruistic Suicide |
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What is egotistic sucide?
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Suicide that is committed by people who feel alienated from others, empty of social contacts, and alone in an unsupportive world.
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What is anomic suicide?
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Suicide that is committed by people who experience severe disorientation because of a major change in their relationships to society.
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What is altruistic suicide?
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Suicide that is committed by people who believe that taking thier own lives will benefit society in some way.
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