Teen Suicide Related To Substance Abuse
Teen Suicide Related to Substance Abuse
TEEN SUICIDE RELATED TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE
The greatest health threats for today’s teens are behavioral rather than medical. Many, though not all, teens engage in behaviors that might be considered threatening to their health and well-being; furthermore, adolescents partake in risky and dangerous behaviors including drug and alcohol use and abuse at increasingly younger ages (Adger & DeAngelia, 2004). Linked to teen substance abuse is the most deviant issue of teen suicide; over the past three decades, adolescent suicide rates have increased significantly; suicide is now the third leading cause of death among persons age 15 to 14 years old . Intervention and prevention efforts …show more content…
Among young adults arrested or convicted for criminal acts such as burglary, vandalism, theft, and assault (with or without weapons), drug use appears to be widespread. Similarly, among youth gangs, both drug use and drug sales are commonplace. Educators as well as social service professionals exhibit concern at the increase in drug use among poor, inner-city school-age adolescents who often come from minority cultures. The Michigan Institute for Social Research has been tracking adolescent drug use since 1975. According to Janowsky (1993), the Institute’s longitudinal research has demonstrated that whereas illicit drug use among this population increased annually into the early 1980s, a gradual tapering off took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At that point, use rates began to increase again, with the corresponding effect of an earlier age at time of first use. According to Janowsky (1993), the Michigan study revealed that once again, young people are coming to view some type of drug use as glamorous; further, these same young people indicated that they did not believe that the stated risks associated were legitimate, as is evident by an across-the-board decrease in the total number …show more content…
(1986). Abnormal Psychology. Glenview, Il.: Scott Foresman.
DeLamater, J. D., & Myers, D. J. (2011). Social Psychology. Belmont: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Franklin, J. W. (1994). Addiction medicine. Journal of the American Medical Association, 271: 1650-1651.
Garland, A. F., & Zigler, E. (2009). Adolescent suicide prevention. American Psychologist, 48: 169-83.
Henry, C. S., Stephenson, A. L., Hanson, M. F., & Margett, W. (1993). Adolescent suicide and families. Adolescence, 28: 291-309.
Janowsky, M. (1993, December 13). Survey reports more drug use by teenagers. The New York Times
Johnston, L. D., & O’Malley, P. M. (1993). National Study Result on Drug Abuse. Baltimore, Md: National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Kaplan, K. J., & Maldaver, M. (1993). Parental marital style and completed adolescent suicide. Omega - The Journal of Death and Dying, 77: 131-55.
Lewisohn, P. M., Rohde, P., & Seeley, J. R. (2010). Psychological risk factors for future adolescent suicide attempts. Journal of Clinical & Counseling Psychology, 62: 297-306.
Shreve, B. M., & Kunkel, M. G. (1991). Self-psychology, shame & adolescent suicide. Journal of Counseling & Development, 69:
TEEN SUICIDE RELATED TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE
The greatest health threats for today’s teens are behavioral rather than medical. Many, though not all, teens engage in behaviors that might be considered threatening to their health and well-being; furthermore, adolescents partake in risky and dangerous behaviors including drug and alcohol use and abuse at increasingly younger ages (Adger & DeAngelia, 2004). Linked to teen substance abuse is the most deviant issue of teen suicide; over the past three decades, adolescent suicide rates have increased significantly; suicide is now the third leading cause of death among persons age 15 to 14 years old . Intervention and prevention efforts …show more content…
Among young adults arrested or convicted for criminal acts such as burglary, vandalism, theft, and assault (with or without weapons), drug use appears to be widespread. Similarly, among youth gangs, both drug use and drug sales are commonplace. Educators as well as social service professionals exhibit concern at the increase in drug use among poor, inner-city school-age adolescents who often come from minority cultures. The Michigan Institute for Social Research has been tracking adolescent drug use since 1975. According to Janowsky (1993), the Institute’s longitudinal research has demonstrated that whereas illicit drug use among this population increased annually into the early 1980s, a gradual tapering off took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At that point, use rates began to increase again, with the corresponding effect of an earlier age at time of first use. According to Janowsky (1993), the Michigan study revealed that once again, young people are coming to view some type of drug use as glamorous; further, these same young people indicated that they did not believe that the stated risks associated were legitimate, as is evident by an across-the-board decrease in the total number …show more content…
(1986). Abnormal Psychology. Glenview, Il.: Scott Foresman.
DeLamater, J. D., & Myers, D. J. (2011). Social Psychology. Belmont: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Franklin, J. W. (1994). Addiction medicine. Journal of the American Medical Association, 271: 1650-1651.
Garland, A. F., & Zigler, E. (2009). Adolescent suicide prevention. American Psychologist, 48: 169-83.
Henry, C. S., Stephenson, A. L., Hanson, M. F., & Margett, W. (1993). Adolescent suicide and families. Adolescence, 28: 291-309.
Janowsky, M. (1993, December 13). Survey reports more drug use by teenagers. The New York Times
Johnston, L. D., & O’Malley, P. M. (1993). National Study Result on Drug Abuse. Baltimore, Md: National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Kaplan, K. J., & Maldaver, M. (1993). Parental marital style and completed adolescent suicide. Omega - The Journal of Death and Dying, 77: 131-55.
Lewisohn, P. M., Rohde, P., & Seeley, J. R. (2010). Psychological risk factors for future adolescent suicide attempts. Journal of Clinical & Counseling Psychology, 62: 297-306.
Shreve, B. M., & Kunkel, M. G. (1991). Self-psychology, shame & adolescent suicide. Journal of Counseling & Development, 69: