Every year 42, 773 Americans die from suicide. There are approximately 110 deaths daily due to suicide and for every successful suicide there are twenty-five more attempts made. Attempted suicide is responsible for approximately 494,169 hospital visits annually and that number only reflects the number of visits reported due to self harm. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, AFSP, is an organization that is fully and whole heartedly devoted to raising suicide awareness by offering programs and resources for survivors of suicide and for those at risk. The American Foundation For Suicide Prevention was organized in 1987 by a group of people that lost loved ones as a result of suicide. Surviving family members partnered with scientists and together they sponsored suicide-related research and prevention. Also, they established the nations first non-for profit organization dedicated to suicide research. The…
A major problem in the society is teen suicide. This affects the community in a negative way. We lose friends, loved ones, and family. The person who decides to suicide could have had a life full of pain. They believe no one loves them or cares about them. When they decide to commit suicide the community, the friends, family, everyone who cared for the person come together and feel miserable for losing someone. A question about this type of situation is, “what is being done to help?”. There…
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention collects data about mortality in the U.S., including suicide related deaths. In 2013, there were 41,149 reported suicides in Americans alone. This made suicide the tenth leading cause of death amongst us. Every 12.8 minutes someone died by suicide. However, although there is no record for suicide attempts, hospitals keep a record of those who are admitted for self-harm. In 2013, there were 494,169 people who visited the hospital due to self-harm…
As of 1999, “suicide prevention programs, medical treatment via antidepressants, and psychotherapy may have promising results, it is difficult to distinguish if these national suicide prevention strategies are effective” (D’orio 133). In order to elaborate and implement comprehensive suicide prevention policies, new funding is essential. The deficiency in evaluation research is the single most important obstacle that needs to be overcome because more needs to be understood about suicide.…
patients upon return to the facility, I perform Urine Analysis tests, and I make sure that all the rules are being followed. Prelude is a confidential facility and I help ensure HIPPA and 42-CFR compliance with staff, patients, and all outside sources. I also preform admissions and discharges. During admissions, I use the American Society of Addiction Medicine Assessment (ASAM) to assess our patients for substance abuse disorders. I then use this knowledge to help recommend whether the patient…
The journal article Impact of Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training on the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline discusses an empirical study completed to assess the effectiveness of utilizing the ASIST model with individuals suffering from adverse effects (Gould, Cross, & Pisani, 2013). The authors of the article commence their discussion by emphasizing the topic of suicide as a worldwide tragedy and social problem within society, as a completed suicide occurs every 15 minutes.…
The Asics advertisement depicts a women running with her dog. The ad uses several gimmicks and physiological tools to promote the product, the GEL-Nimbus 11. The advertisements arsenal includes: the use of color, the theme of escape, the illusion of action, and the invocation of guilt. With these commercial cutlasses Asics slices through the mind of the viewer and straight into the wallet of the consumer, thus creating an effective advertisement. Dog owning women are the targeted demographic…
The ASPCA: A Guilt Trip Most organizations and companies successfully advertise their ideas in commercials by appealing to the audience most likely to indulge in them. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) crafts its commercial to target animal lovers. In order to convince this target audience to donate to the ASPCA’s cause, their commercial unfairly plays with viewers’ emotions by using heroic word choice, displays depictions of animals, and utilizes a celebrity…
it is not heart disease. Believe it or not, it is suicide. Suicide is a serious public health concern with devastating lasting effects that not only touches the one attempting suicide, but their family, friends, coworkers, community, and anyone involved. Suicide has no racial or gender biases, it does not matter how rich or poor someone is, it lays claim on its victims with no pity or afterthought. With the numbers that continue to grow, what is even more alarming is that there is a connection,…
Suicide Suicide is an irreversible decision made by people with short-term complication. According to the website American Foundation For Suicide Prevention,”From 1986 to 2000, suicides rates in the U.S. dropped from 12.5 to 10.4 suicide deaths per 100,000 people in the population. Over the next twelve years, however, the rate generally increased and by 2013 stood at 12.6 deaths per 100,000.” (“Facts and Figures”). The statistics of different people who tried to attempted or have committed…