Life under pressure : the social roots of youth suicide and what to do about them /
Youth suicide clusters have deeply unsettled communities in recent years. While clusters have been widely documented in the media, too little is known about why youth die by suicide, why youth suicide clusters happen, and how to stop them both. In this book, the authors investigate the social roots...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Youth suicide clusters have deeply unsettled communities in recent years. While clusters have been widely documented in the media, too little is known about why youth die by suicide, why youth suicide clusters happen, and how to stop them both. In this book, the authors investigate the social roots of youth suicide and why certain places weather disproportionate incidents of adolescent suicides and suicide clusters. Through close examination of kids' lives in a community repeatedly rocked by youth suicide clusters, the authors reveal how the social worlds that youth inhabit and the various messages they learn in those spaces - about who they are supposed to be, mental illness, and help-seeking - shape their feelings about themselves and in turn their risk of suicide. With great empathy, the authors also identify the moments when adults unintentionally fail kids by not talking to them about suicide, teaching them how to seek help, or helping them grieve. Through stories of survival, resilience, and even rebellion, the authors show how social environments can cause suicide and how they can be changed to help kids discover a life worth living. By revealing what it is like to live and die in one community, this book offers tangible solutions to one of the twenty-first century's most tragic public health problems. -- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 250 pages) : map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190847876 0190847875 9780190847869 0190847867 9780190847852 0190847859 |