Article: State laws on suicide and rates of suicide: a replication.
North American Journal of Psychology;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Seven aspects of laws on suicide, as proxy measures of public attitudes...were correlated with the 2001 rates of suicide for the contiguous U.S. states. With...relationships between state laws on suicide and state rates of suicide. A multiple...

Article: Suicide
Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders;      700+ words ...Suicide Definition Suicide is defined as the intentional taking of one's own life. In some European languages, the word for suicide translates into English as "self-murder " Until the end of the twentieth...

Article: Understanding adolescent suicide: a psychosocial interpretation of developmental and contextual factors.
Adolescence;  December 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Suicide is a complex problem with ideology or beliefs as a common...identities pressing on the individual. One factor underlying suicide concerns the failure to construct a healthy identity. Much...they are expressions of despair. Erikson acknowledged that suicide itself is an identity choice for some ...

Article: Suicide: an intergenerational tragedy (warning signs for suicide).
Presbyterian Record;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Suicide is tragic and perplexing and, in recent years, has touched the lives of most Canadians...reality with many youth is that their lives lack happiness and joy. Warning Signs for Suicide * Abrupt changes in personality * Giving away possessions * Previous suicide attempt * Ending of a romance * ...

Article: Mental Disorders
Complete Human Diseases and Conditions;      700+ words ...Mental Disorders Mental disorders cover a wide range of conditions that lead to abnormalities...careful diagnosis and can be helped with proper treatment. Mental disorders is a broad term that includes a wide range of and conditions...

Article: Suicide Investigation
World of Forensic Science;      700+ words ...Suicide Investigation When the medical examiner (ME) is faced with...three manners involve some form of physical trauma. In a suicide, trauma is inflicted by the victim on himself. Gunshot...height, hanging, and drug overdose are common causes of suicide. However, such deaths can also be caused by homicide ...

Article: The role of the forensic nurse in the assessment of abuse: among female suicide survivors.
The Forensic Examiner;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......1984) found that suicide survivors compared to non-suicide survivors more often reported major stress and...study examined experiences of abuse in survivors of suicide. The specific aims were to examine the incidence of abuse in widows who survive the suicide of their spouse, and to assess the ...

Article: "Does God love Gabe?".(teens and suicide)
Presbyterian Record;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Suicide is the second leading cause of death for youth ages 10-24 A few years ago, my son's best friend committed suicide. Dylan (my son) and Gabe, both teenagers at the time, left...in the same small community of Elora, Ontario, committed suicide. This second death prompted a public meeting where experts...

Article: suicide
A Dictionary of Sociology;      672 words ...suicide Commonly defined as the intentional killing of oneself. Émile Durkheim , in his classic study Suicide (1897), defined it as ‘every case of death which...specific intention to kill oneself. Durkheim chose to study suicide because it seemed to illustrate perfectly the necessity...

Article: Suicide Basics
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying;      700+ words ...SUICIDE BASICS EPIDEMIOLOGY Danielle Saint-Laurent HISTORY Norman...WARNING SIGNS AND PREDICTIONS Brian L. Mishara EPIDEMIOLOGY Suicide, voluntarily taking one's own life, occurs in every country in the world. In Western societies, suicide is recognized as a leading cause of early death, a major...

Article: Suicide and attempted suicide--China, 1990-2002.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report;  June 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Suicide is the fifth leading cause of death overall in China and...1995-1999, approximately 287,000 persons died each year from suicide, a national rate of 23 per 100,000 population (1). In addition, an estimated 2 million suicide attempts occur each year (2). To characterize suicides...

Article: First Nations youth speak out about suicide.(suicide prevention)
Windspeaker;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Suicide amongst Aboriginal youth in Canada has been called an epidemic. The rates vary among First Nations...populations. The loss of young people is devastating to many smaller communities, which sometimes experience suicide clusters where one youth commits suicide and then others copy them. Many community ...

Article: Suicide report needs to be "followed up on" says STOP.
Leitrim Observer (Carrick-on-Shannon, Northern Ireland);  July 10, 2008 ;     532 words ...Leitrim-based suicide awareness and prevention group STOP (Suicide, Treat, Organise, Prevent), has said that while yesterday...launch of a special paper entitled 'What We Can Do About Suicide in The New Ireland' is welcome it needs to be followed...

Article: Genetic factors and mental disorders
Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders;      700+ words ...Genetic factors and mental disorders Introduction and overview In...in the etiology (causes) of mental disorders. Since the Human Genome Project...Diagnostic questionnaires for mental disorders are helpful in trimming the...