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Sallee, Emily; Ng, Kok-Mun; Cazares-Cervantes, Abraham – Professional School Counseling, 2021
Despite the growing epidemic of suicide ideation and attempt in adolescents, there is a lack of theory-based, empirical research to shed light on these issues in this population and inform school counselors' preventive and responsive practices. We utilized Joiner's Interpersonal Theory of Suicide (IPTS) to examine the extent to which the…
Descriptors: Suicide, Predictor Variables, Early Adolescents, Psychological Patterns
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Martin, Brian – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2010
Proponents and opponents of euthanasia have argued passionately about whether it should be legalized. In Australia in the mid-1990s, following the world's first legal euthanasia deaths, Dr. Philip Nitschke initiated a different approach: a search for do-it-yourself technological means of dying with dignity. The Australian government has opposed…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Death, Foreign Countries, Technology
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Mackin, Juliette; Perkins, Tamara; Furrer, Carrie – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2012
This study provides actionable information about intervening with American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth to prevent suicide. Statewide school survey data were used to model the impact of risk and protective factors on self-reported suicide attempts (both AI/AN and non-AI/AN). The cumulative risk and protective model worked similarly for both…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Suicide
Swart, Sandra, Ed.; Friesen, Barbara, Ed.; Holman, Ariel, Ed.; Aue, Nicole, Ed. – Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health, 2009
The State of the Science conference was held in May, 2007 as part of the ongoing series of national conferences, "Building on Family Strengths," conducted by the Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health at Portland State University. The theme of this State-of-the Science conference was "Effective…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Mental Health, Mental Health Programs, Family Programs