NURS 561: Adolescent Suicide Prevention - Risks, Signs & Support

This presentation addresses the critical issue of adolescent suicide, outlining the risk and contributing factors such as mental disorders, previous suicide attempts, family history, and stressful life events. It highlights the prevalence of suicide among adolescents, emphasizing depression as a primary risk factor. The role of healthcare practitioners in identifying at-risk individuals, developing safety plans, and providing mental health support is discussed. The presentation also covers ways to identify potential issues, including changes in behavior, social exclusion, and risk-taking, and suggests strategies for addressing the problem through education, peer support, and economic assistance. The importance of family and community support in preventing adolescent suicide is underscored, along with resources for further help and intervention. Desklib offers a wealth of resources, including similar presentations and solved assignments, to aid in understanding and addressing this pressing issue.

SUICIDE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Adolescence suicide
• Prevalence rate
• Risk factors
• Contributing factors
• Different signs to identify the issue
• Different ways to address the issue
• Role of healthcare practitioner
• Conclusion
• References

INTRODUCTION
• Suicide is refereed as the death that is caused by self-directed injurious
attitude and behavior with a motive to kill themselves.
• It is considered as the third most leading cause of demise among the
adolescent group in United States and is therefore considered as the
serious concern within the nation (American Psychology Association,
2019).
• Suicide is also considered as one of the rare events because it is
difficult to predict the risk factors that will trigger the individual to
commit suicide.

ADOLESCENCE SUICIDE
• The adolescence phase is considered as the formative and unique phase of
life as they develop some crucial habits that will help them to lead a healthy
life.
• Depression is considered as the primary cause of illness among the
adolescent that further result in suicide if not rerated on time (Who.int,
2019).
• Suicide is considered as the third major cause of demise among the
adolescence phase aged between 15-19 years.
• There are different social determinants that affect the mental well-being of
the adolescent and result in mental disorder that further trigger them to
commit suicide.

PREVALENCE RATE OF SUICIDE
• Suicide is considered as the third most leading cause of death among
the adolescent phase aged between 15-19 years.
• Depression is the primary risk factors that trigger the situation of
suicide aged between 14-17 years of age accounting for approximately
60% of the adolescent death (National Institute of Mental Health,
2019).
• The rate of suicidal ideation was the highest among the adolescent
phase aged with the prevalence arte of 10.5%.
• In 2017, the suicide rate among the adolescents were 14.46% that was
majorly contributing to the overall burden of diseases.

RISK FACTORS
There are various risk factors that are responsible for triggering the suicidal
ideation among the population that includes the following (Shain, 2016):
• Mental disorders
• Former suicidal attempts
• Personality Characteristics
• Family factors
• Precise life-events behaviors
• Recent loss
• Fear
• Lower self-esteem

CONTRIBUTING FACTORS
There are various contributing factors that trigger the individual to commit suicide and also
disturb their mental state. The rate of adolescent suicide is directly related to the exposure rate
of the individual to different risk factors that are directly or indirectly involved in the suicidal
attempt. The contributing factors among the adolescents are as follows (Thullen, Taliaferro &
Muehlenkamp, 2016):
• Stress
• Desire
• Media influence
• Exploration of sexual identity
• Education stress
• Bullying and harsh parenting
• Living condition

DIFFERENT SIGNS TO IDENTIFY THE
ISSUE
There are different activities that exhibit if the individual is suffering from suicidal
ideation or not, which are as follows (Lawrence, Oquendo & Stanley, 2016):
• Impulsive behavior
• Change in sleeping and eating habits
• Family violence
• More than one psychological abuse issue
• Aggressive behavior
• Loss of interest
• Social exclusion from family members or friends
• Unnecessary risk taking behavior

WAYS TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE
There arte different ways that can be used by the family members or the close
relatives to address the issue of suicide among the adolescents, which includes
the following (World Health Organization, 2016):
• General suicide education
• Peer support programs
• Suicidal intervention
• Strengthen economic support
• Developing an protective environment
• Providing adequate social and mental support
• Educating the problem-solving and coping skills

ROLE OF HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONER
• The primary role of he healthcare practitioner is interview the patient
who are suffering from the risk factors of suicide and identify what are
the primary risk factor responsible for the suicidal ideation among
them.
• I also have the responsibility to identify and screen the adolescent for
the mental health issue that is triggering them to commit suicide.
• Once, the risk factors are identified, it is the sole responsibility of the
healthcare practitioner to develop a suicide safety plan that will
comprise of different activities that will help them to overcome from
the suicidal ideation.

CONCLUSION
• Suicide is considered as one of the major concern and cause of demise
among the adolescent population.
• There are various risk factors that will be responsible for triggering the
individual to commit suicide and the severity of the situation depends
on the exposure rate of the adolescent to different risk factors.
• The family members and close relatives play a major role in
preventing the suicidal ideation among the individual by providing
adequate social support and mental assistance.
• The healthcare practitioner also assist the adolescent to overcome from
the condition of suicide ideation.

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