ON ADOLESCENT SUICIDE: IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING EDUCATION.
Contributors: Temple University.
Published: 1989
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Curriculum and Instruction.
Description: The basic problem of this study was to examine adolescent suicide as a national health problem and therefore a nursing problem. The foci of the investigation were on the propositions about suicide advanced by Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud, and Anna Freud. The principal aim was to derive implications for nursing education.

Research proceeded in four interrelated stages: (1) a description of the propositions advanced by Emile Durkheim about suicide as a social event; (2) a description of the propositions advanced by Sigmund Freud about suicide as a psychic event; and (3) a description of the propositions advanced by Anna Freud about adolescent suicide as a developmental event.

Emile Durkheim addressed suicide from the perspective of sociology, but recognized the psychic and developmental implications of suicide. Sigmund Freud addressed suicide from the perspective of the psyche, which he established as being of biological origin, but recognized the sociological and developmental impact on instinctual life. Anna Freud examined the disruptions of adolescence developmentally, but recognized the importance and relatedness of biologically grounded psychoanalysis and the impact of sociological factors.

While each theorist presents a primary grounding, it must be noted that no one grounding, as presented by each source, functions in isolation from the others.

Nurses are in a position of immediacy in intervention in instances of adolescent suicide. If nursing education informs nursing practice and nursing practice is the source of modification of nursing education, and if it is reasonable to claim a bio-psycho-social orientation for nursing, then biological, psychological and social sources must be examined as they impact on nursing education.

If adolescent suicide can be addressed from a bio-psycho-social perspective, then the propositions of Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud, and Anna Freud are appropriate sources from which to examine adolescent suicide as a nursing problem.

Nursing scholars, nursing educators, nurse practitioners must begin to collaborate with curricularists to develop systematic programs grounded in biological, psychological and social sources that have been determined to be appropriate and adequate for nursing care and nursing education.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-04, Section: B, page: 1328.

Thesis (ED.D.)--TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, 1989.

School code: 0225.