teen suicide in india?

Question

identifucation, causes, prercautions

identification, causes, precautions

Answer 1

Warning Signs-

Many behavioral and verbal clues--some subtle, others more obvious--can alert the informed parent, teacher, counselor or friend to an adolescent's suicidal intentions. A teen at risk of committing suicide is experiencing deep depression, which may be indicated by loss of weight, appetite or interest in personal appearance; a change in sleeping pattern; fatigue; and feelings of hopelessness and low self-esteem. Sudden behavioral changes may occur: the youth may become disruptive, violent, or hostile toward family and friends; or unexplainably moody, suspicious, anxious, or selfish. He or she may spend a great deal of time daydreaming, fantasizing, or imagining ills, in extreme cases experiencing memory lapses or hallucinations.
Some signals should come through loud and clear: the teenager may express a desire to die, threaten to commit suicide, or inform friends of a plan. Self-abusive acts such as cutting off hair and self-inflicting cigarette burns are obvious suicidal gestures. The teen may develop a preoccupation with death and dying, make arrangements to give away prized possessions, withdraw from therapeutic help, or rapidly lose interest in once-valued activities and objects.

Intervention: Providing Psychological "First Aid"-

Most youths who attempt suicide don't really want to die; they are crying out for help. There seems to be universal agreement on the manner in which to counsel suicidal teens:
1Be non-judgmental.
2.Treat the youth's problems seriously, and take all threats seriously.
3.Do not try to talk the person out of it.
4.Ask direct questions, such as, "Have you been thinking of killing yourself?" Don't be afraid that you will be suggesting something the adolescent has not yet considered; usually your mentioning the topic is a relief.
5.Communicate your concern and support.
6.Offer yourself as a caring listener until professional help can be arranged.
7.Try to evaluate the seriousness of the risk, in order to make the appropriate referral to a health care professional, counselor, or concerned teacher.
8.Do not swear to secrecy. Contact someone who can help the adolescent if he or she will not do it personally.
9.Do not leave the person alone if you feel the threat is immediate.
In a counseling situation, a contract can be an effective prevention technique. The adolescent signs a card which states that he or she agrees not to take the final step of suicide while interacting with the counselor (Ray 1983).
Once past the crisis, follow-up is crucial, because most suicides occur within three months of the beginning of improvement, when the youth has the energy to carry out plans conceived earlier. Regularly scheduled supportive counseling should be provided to teach the youth coping mechanisms for managing stress accompanying a life crisis, as well as day-to-day stress.

Prevention-

Community members, mental health professionals, school personnel, peers, and parents can play major roles in the prevention of teenage suicide. Programs that build adolescents' self-esteem and inspire a sense of inclusion in society rather than alienation from it have been found to be particularly effective.
Churches and other religious communities can sponsor suicide prevention programs, and engage youth in the planning and implementation of programs for aiding the elderly, working in day care centers, training peer counselors, and improving the environment. Libraries can sponsor similar programs which teens can develop, manage, and supervise themselves.
Afterschool programs can be established in community centers to provide organized outings for cultural enrichment, computer training, tutoring, job counseling, sexuality counseling, crisis intervention, and/or health care. When staffed by people who care, these centers have the potential to become solid support networks for teenagers.
Mental health personnel can educate students, counselors, teachers, and others, such as nurses and religious youth group leaders, in suicide identification and prevention. They can lead crisis intervention workshops for counselors and teachers and train peer counselors in middle and high schools. They can establish suicide crisis centers with telephone hotlines, support groups, outreach teams to facilitate grief groups for families and in schools, and research facilities for further study.
School counselors can act as liaisons between the community and the school, between mental health professionals and teachers, and between suicidal teens and parents.
They can also:
•Alert school officials to the seriousness of the issue
•Sponsor staff development workshops to alert teachers to potential suicide risks
•Present educational films to the school population
•Offer stress management workshops to teens
•Train peer counselors
•Establish support groups for teens
•Staff drop-in centers, providing a counseling atmosphere of support and acceptance
•Construct a referral network of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers to contact in case of emergency
•Arrange remedial reading courses to alleviate feelings of frustration and low self-esteem in adolescents with reading problems
•Advocate that the school offer a wide variety of extracurricular activities to youth
•Encourage more personalized teacher-student relationships
Teachers play an especially important part in prevention, because they spend so much time with their students. Along with holding parent-teacher meetings to discuss teenage suicide prevention, teachers can form referral networks with mental health professionals. They can increase student awareness by introducing the topic in health classes. Students should learn how to identify those at risk of suicide, how to intervene with good listening and communication skills, and where to turn for help.

Peers are crucial to suicide prevention. According to one survey, 93% of the students reported that they would turn to a friend before a teacher, parent or spiritual guide in a time of crisis (TEENAGERS IN CRISIS l983). Peers can form student support groups and, once educated themselves, can train others to be peer counselors.

Finally, parents need to be as open and as attentive as possible to their adolescent children's difficulties. The most effective suicide prevention technique parents can exercise is to maintain open lines of communication with their children. Sometimes teens hide their problems, not wanting to burden the people they love. It is extremely important to assure teens that they can share their troubles, and gain support in the process. Parents are encouraged to talk about suicide with their children, and to educate themselves by forming study groups with other parents, or by attending parent-teacher or parent-counselor education sessions. Once trained, parents can help to staff a crisis hotline in their community. Parents also need to be involved in the counseling process if a teen has suicidal tendencies. These activities may both alleviate parents' fears of the unknown and assure teenagers that their parents care.

It is possible, through the coordinated actions of parents, peers, school personnel, and the community at large, to reverse the growing trend of teenage suicide. Counselors can make the difference, by providing the leadership and motivation to guide the efforts of youngsters and adults..

Answer 2

The Indian teens are the most stressed lot.
On one side the parents' expectations are loaded on them. If a father or mother had dreamt of studying in the IIT/IIM and have failed, the failed dream is imposed on the poor son or daughter without really assessing the potential and the willingness.
Schools exert a different pressure. In order to maintain their "ranking" the schools churn out impractical schedules for the teen agers, which conflict greatly with their emotional development. The teachers we have are poorly qualified, and ill trained for handling teen agers. They try to repeat their mistakes over and over and impose heavy penalties on the teen agers.
Thirdly the teen agers themselves are distracted by Net, TV, Movies etc. Over doses of Sex and Violence dominate the scene, and the teen agers get carried away easily.
Over all, they are pressed for time, and are unable to develop healthy hobbies and end up being victims of all the above.
Precautions: Constant, non-threatening dialogue between teen agers and their parents, and teachers is important to have an understanding of the stresses that the teen agers suffer and help them out of it.

Answer 3

Actually the fast growing infra structure and living style makes the teens to feel insecure about their lives and also the expectations from their parents are also increasing ,when they feel like they can't fulfill their wishes and can't satisfy hopes of parents ,the tendency to harm our self increases.
Precautions we can take are only to provide free environment to our children, and not to overload our expectations on them.
When they feel like if we did something wrong by mistake then also our parents wont left us or they will forgive us ,then only teens feel secure and will not choose the option of suicide for solutions of problems in life.

Answer 4

Specially children preparing for IIT, MSET,CAT.etc There is unbearable pressure of studies on them coupled with the expectations of the parents. They are not even spared on Sundays to relax without tension of facing Monday. I am just waiting for my son to finish his MSET. I will lodge police complaint and sue the college for torturing children. Even the best of students are physically abused besides mental and verbal abuse. If good students are facing this weaker ones will naturally commit suicide.

Answer 5

Teen suicide in India identified mostly in college students .
The causes for it is depression of love,friendship,decieve,education,insecurtiy.
Precautions are to give awareness in youth abt love,friendship.
Teachers should not pressurise students for their studies

Answer 6

neclect and apathy in shared understanding by family, emotional escapades or misadventures , lack of empowered and positive decision-making training, lack of free , easy and generous- emotional , material and intellectual support or security, excessively tight professional/ business engagements of parents to spare or spend more and more loving and cheerng moments to provide healthy delightful experiences or exposures to adolescent teens -- coupled with un healthy circles of social relationships fill up ateen-ager's formative mind with stinky and vulgar thoughts . cure to this erratic progress lies in correct diagnosis timely intervention and help enhance confidence building capacity in the vulnerble person, by parents teachers or friends. Education plays key role to deal with the core problem in comprehnsive way.

Answer 7

yes because of pressure from parents and for many other reasons.

Answer 8

Alot alot alot idk how much specially however alot of homosexual/bi young adults kill themselves thnks to the homophobia and biphobia!!! They hate themselves a lot that they cant be pleased and it makes me so unhappy so sad to hear that......... :( life can also be so merciless and unfair

Answer 9

alot alot alot idk how plenty particularly yet alot of gay/bi little ones kill themselves thnks to the homophobia and biphobia!!! they hate themselves plenty that they cant be happy and it makes me so unhappy so unhappy to hearken to that......... :( existence could be so merciless and unfair

Answer 10

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