This 10 page paper considers the issue of teen suicide and the problem for one specific community. This paper suggests that increasing suicide rates in recent years and the reflections in the current literature for a variety of reasons behind this shift has created an impetus for an educational response to the problem. This paper outlines a comprehensive educational program designed to reduce the propensity for suicidal thoughts and tendencies among middle school students. Bibliography lists 8 sources. Teen suicide is nearly four times more common today than it was a few decades ago.
Suicide is now the third leading killer of young people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four.
Bibliography lists 8 sources. A 14 page paper illustrating a hypothetical situation, in combination with actual studies, that involves a high school girl who has a serious drinking problem. She is 17 years old and attends a private Christian school where this writer is a presumed history teacher and youth counselor. Three separate studies, or articles, are examined in detail, assessing their usefulness and analyzing their method of research in an attempt to discover the best possible program to be implemented with the student. Sections of this paper include Intervention Techniques, Assessment and Criteria, Reliability and Validity, Internal Validity, Internal Validity, and others.