Download or read book Latinas Attemping Suicide written by Luis H. Zayas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among teenage Latinas in the United States, suicide attempts occur at rates sometimes twice as high as other youth. This book looks into the development of young Latinas, girls caught between two cultures, struggling to reconcile them.
Download or read book Latinas Attempting Suicide written by Luis H. Zayas and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since 1991, surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shown that Latina teenagers attempt suicide at a far higher rate than other American youth in the same age group; one in seven Latinas attempt suicide while one in ten black and white girls do. While these numbers came as a shock to the general public, many urban clinicians have long suspected this disparity without having the data to confirm the problem or draw attention to it. Here, in a compelling account of a troubling trend that draws on interviews conducted both with girls who attempted suicide and those who did not, Luis Zayas begins to unravel the mystery of why young Latinas attempt suicide in such great numbers. Beginning with a description of the U.S. Hispanic population and the many values, beliefs, norms, and child-rearing practices that Hispanic families share in common, Zayas goes on to look at the development of young Latinas, girls caught between two cultures, struggling to reconcile them. By drawing on developmental, cultural, and family psychology and acculturation and immigration theory and research, Zayas' in-depth research forms a conceptual basis for understanding Latina suicide attempts. He illustrates with the girls' own words, and those of their parents, how social, psychological, family, and cultural factors come together into a flashpoint. The result is a startling look at the nexus of influences that make Latina adolescence a particularly risky time. his book presents the anatomy of experiences before, during, and after suicide attempts and suggests new ways of understanding them. More importantly, it offers researchers and clinicians a model for understanding and working with young Latinas and their families in a compassionate, culturally sensitive manner"--Publisher description.
Download or read book Handbook of Youth Suicide Prevention written by Regina Miranda and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook examines research on youth suicide, analyzes recent data on suicide among adolescents, and addresses the subject matter as a serious public health concern. The book explores the research on youth suicide, examining its causes, new and innovative ways of determining suicide risk, and evidence-based intervention and prevention strategies. In addition, it focuses on specific under-studied populations, including adolescents belonging to ethnic, racial, and sexual minority groups, youth involved in the criminal justice system, and adolescents in foster care. The book discusses how culturally informed and targeted interventions can help to decrease suicide risk for these populations. Key areas of coverage include: Early childhood adversity, stress, and developmental pathways of suicide risk. The neurobiology of youth suicide. Suicide, self-harm, and the media. Assessment of youth suicidal behavior with explicit and implicit measures. Suicide-related risk among immigrant, ethnic, and racial minority youth. LGBTQ youth and suicide prevention. Psychosocial treatments for ethnoculturally diverse youth with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Technology-enhanced interventions and youth suicide prevention. The Handbook of Youth Suicide Prevention is an essential resource for researchers, professors, graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental psychology, social work, public health, pediatrics, family studies, child and adolescent psychiatry, school and educational psychology, and all interrelated disciplines. Chapters 8, 9 and 16 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Download or read book Adolescent Development and Acculturation of Latina Suicide Attempters written by Carolina Hausmann-Stabile and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, approximately 15% of Latina adolescents in the United States attempt suicide (Center for Disease Control [CDC], 2012). Rates of suicide attempts among Latina adolescents have been historically higher than those of their non-Latina counterparts (CDC, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA], 2003). Familial, cultural and developmental issues have been cited as critical aspects to understand Latina adolescents' suicidal behavior (Zayas, Lester, Cabassa, & Fortuna, 2005). Prior research explaining the high incidence of suicide attempts among Latina teens has focused primarily on familial processes and parent-daughter conflicts (Gulbas, Nolle, Hausmann-Stabile, Kuhlberg, Peña ... Baumann, 2011; Peña, Kuhlberg, Zayas, Bauman, Gulbas ... Nolle, 2011; Zayas, Gulbas, Fedoravicius, & Cabassa, 2010; Zayas, Hausmann-Stabile & Kuhlberg, 2011), and on Latino cultural values that shape the girls' suicidal behavior (Nolle, Gulbas, Kuhlberg, & Zayas, 2012; Zayas & Gulbas, 2012). Although this literature has increased the understanding of this phenomenon, it has not differentiated Latina adolescent suicide attempters from non-attempters. Thus, the question of why so many Latina teens attempt suicide remains unanswered. Acculturation and development have been suggested to be at the core of the adaptation problems of Latina adolescents (Cervantes & Cordova, 2011), and acculturation is a hypothesized precursor of some of their behavioral and mental health problems (De la Rosa, 2002; Gonzales, Knight, Morgan-Lopez, Saenz, & Sirolli, 2002; Rogler, Cortes, & Malgady, 1991). Even though adolescent development and acculturation are hypothesized to be related to the suicide attempts of Latina adolescents (Zayas et al., 2005), the process by which these factors impact suicidal behavior has not been empirically explored. This research project is focused on understanding the role played by adolescent development and acculturation in Latina teens' suicide attempts, illustrating this process and their integration, and the role they play in the girls' suicidal behavior. The conceptual model informing this project is anchored in minority youth development theories suggesting that in addition to the normative developmental challenges that all adolescents face, children of immigrant backgrounds must acculturate to the host society (Phinney, 1990; Smolowski & Bacallao, 2011). This has led researchers (Sam, 2006; Sam & Oppendal, 2003) to theorize that children of immigrant backgrounds' development and acculturation in fact constitute parts of one interdependent process and should be studied simultaneously. Ideally, the study of Latina adolescent suicide attempters' developmental and cultural processes calls for longitudinal research. However, longitudinal studies with suicidal participants are challenging due to the difficulties in engaging and retaining this population (Gibbons, Stirman, Brown, & Beck, 2010). This dissertation attempts a novel solution to this problem by applying an innovative approach used previously in quantitative surveys that compares the personal narratives of teens with and without a history of suicide attempts over time using cross-sectional data. Participants are grouped by age in statistically matched cohorts (early adolescence, middle adolescence, late adolescence), presumably allowing for the analyses of the process of change over time across cohorts. To date, this is the first known attempt to apply this approach to qualitative data. This dissertation is an exploratory secondary analysis of 55 in-depth interviews of adolescent Latinas between the ages of 11 and 19 who attempted suicide compared to 49 interviews of Latina adolescents without a history of suicide attempts. Data for this dissertation were collected between 2005 and 2009 via a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health R01 MH070689 (Zayas, PI). This secondary analysis goes beyond the original grant's aims by shifting the analytic focus from interpersonal dynamics to intrapersonal developmental and acculturation processes, and their relationship to the girls' suicide attempts. By increasing our understanding of the role played by adolescent developmental and acculturative factors on Latinas' suicidal behavior, this dissertation responds to calls by the United Nations (1996), the World Health Organization (2012), the Surgeon General (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [DHHS], 2012), and by the Healthy People 2020 program (DHHS, 2010) to develop research that can help reduce suicide attempts. In addition, it responds to the calls from scientists who ask for theoretical models that integrate the developmental and acculturation changes that children of immigrant backgrounds undergo during adolescence (Garcia Coll & Magnuson, 1997; Laosa, 1997; Sam, 2006; Sam & Oppedal, 2003).
Download or read book Preventing Adolescent Depression and Suicide Among Latinas written by Andrea J. Romero and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s, in comparison to other ethnic and gender groups, a higher rate of depression and suicide ideation has been documented for Latina girls. This Brief offers a concise summary of contemporary research on this critical topic. Among the considerations are the influence of bullying, families, immigration, and culture on Latina adolescent mental health. Presenting cutting-edge multiracial feminist frameworks for new and existing empirical findings, this book serves to guide the future research agenda on this topic. Clinical recommendations are also included.
Download or read book Finding Latinx written by Paola Ramos and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many—Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns—are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the diverse population of almost sixty million Latinos in the U.S. has been represented. No longer. In this empowering cross-country travelogue, journalist and activist Paola Ramos embarks on a journey to find the communities of people defining the controversial term, “Latinx.” She introduces us to the indigenous Oaxacans who rebuilt the main street in a post-industrial town in upstate New York, the “Las Poderosas” who fight for reproductive rights in Texas, the musicians in Milwaukee whose beats reassure others of their belonging, as well as drag queens, environmental activists, farmworkers, and the migrants detained at our border. Drawing on intensive field research as well as her own personal story, Ramos chronicles how “Latinx” has given rise to a sense of collectivity and solidarity among Latinos unseen in this country for decades. A vital and inspiring work of reportage, Finding Latinx calls on all of us to expand our understanding of what it means to be Latino and what it means to be American. The first step towards change, writes Ramos, is for us to recognize who we are.
Download or read book Grieving a Suicide written by Albert Y. Hsu and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2003 Finalist in the United Kingdom Christian Book Awards "Albert," the neighbor said, "your mom needs you to come home." That's how it began for Albert Hsu when his father died. Anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide experiences tremendous shock and trauma. What follows is a confusing mix of emotions—anger, guilt, grief, and despair. Suicide raises heartrending questions: Why did this happen? Why didn't we see it coming? Could we have done anything to prevent it? How can we go on? Many also wonder if those who choose suicide are doomed to an eternity separated from God and their loved ones. Some may even start asking whether life is worth living at all. After his father's death, Hsu wrestled with the intense emotional and theological questions surrounding suicide. While acknowledging that there are no easy answers, he draws on the resources of the Christian faith to point suicide survivors to the God who offers comfort in our grief and hope for the future. For those who have lost a loved one to suicide and for their counselors and pastors, this book is an essential companion for the journey toward healing. This revised edition incorporates updated statistics and now includes a discussion guide for suicide survivor groups.
Download or read book A Free People s Suicide written by Os Guinness and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural observer Os Guinness argues that the American experiment in freedom is at risk. Guinness calls us to cultivate the essential civic character needed for ordered liberty and sustainable freedom. True freedom requires virtue, which in turn requires faith. Only within the framework of what is true, right and good can freedom be found.
Download or read book Latina Adolescent Suicide written by Susan M. De Luca and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This study utilized data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) (Waves I and II) to examine variations in Latina adolescents' level of suicide proclivity as predicted by friendship networks, family support, cultural status and behavioral health (Harris, Mullan, Halpern, Entzel, Tabor, Bearman & Udry, 2008). By examining these correlates of suicide, this study concentrated on two specific objectives set forth by Healthy People 2010: reducing the number of adolescents who experience suicide and reducing the number of future adults who ideate or attempt suicide (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2001). Add Health's stratified cluster design and over-sampling obtained an appropriate number of Latinas (1,618) in the sample. The data include network-level variables to distinguish particular peer group factors that predict suicide. Measures used in this study explored the extent to which cultural status, self-reported parental support, friendship characteristics (reciprocity and suicidal friends) and behavioral health status (depression and substance use) were linked to suicide proclivity (ideations and attempts). Logistic and negative binomial regression analyses were used to observe any predictive or mediating relationships the types of friendships and familial supports had with suicide proclivity. The goal was to ascertain the way in which the cultural status of the Latinas, the type of friends they reported and the level of social support they received from their parents and teachers determined their incidence of suicidal ideation and attempts. Determining the extent to which these factors help account for variation in suicidal thoughts and behaviors will aid in proposing effective strategies for prevention. Empirically-based suicide prevention programs geared specifically for Latinas are important given that these females have higher suicide attempt rates when compared to African American and White teens (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2008). Although the U.S Bureau of the Census does not provide information explicitly regarding Latina adolescents, the Latino population continuing to grow in the U.S. Almost half (48%) of the Latino population comprised of children, preventing suicide among Latina adolescents is essential (CDC, 2006).
Download or read book Bird of Paradise written by Raquel Cepeda and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker chronicles her personal year-long journey to discover the truth about her ancestry through DNA testing, sharing her findings as well as her insights into controversies surrounding modern Latino identity.
Download or read book Stepping Back from the Ledge written by Laura Trujillo and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “seismically moving memoir” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice), one woman asks a seemingly impossible question in the aftermath of her mother’s suicide: How do you mourn a loved one as you repair the injuries they inflicted? “Laura Trujillo resurfaces from the dark ‘sub-basement’ of despair with assurances for us all: There is hope. There is healing. Always, there is love. This book will save lives.”—Connie Schultz, author of The Daughters of Erietown ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker Laura Trujillo had been close to her mother for most of her adult life, raising her four children within a few miles of their beloved grandmother’s Phoenix home. But just three months after moving her young family to Cincinnati for a new job, Laura receives shocking news: Her mother had taken her own life—by jumping off a ledge into the Grand Canyon, a place Laura knew her mother had always loved. Laura and her mother had shared a profound and special bond, yet each had also kept from the other the deepest truths about their lives. As an adult, Laura finally broke her silence about the sexual abuse she had suffered as a teenager at the hands of her stepfather—a secret Laura had buried to protect her mother. After her mother’s death, Laura embarks on an emotional odyssey, searching for clues that could explain the depression, intergenerational trauma, and shared heartbreaks in her family. When she returns to the Grand Canyon, it becomes an oasis that nurtures Laura’s search for redemption and peace. As Laura wrestles with her feelings, she forges a new path forward. Moving and intimate, powerfully told, Stepping Back from the Ledge is a remarkable exploration of the bond between a mother and daughter, and of the hope that can come from facing the truth.
Download or read book Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents written by Alec L. Miller and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling a tremendous need, this highly practical book adapts the proven techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to treatment of multiproblem adolescents at highest risk for suicidal behavior and self-injury. The authors are master clinicians who take the reader step by step through understanding and assessing severe emotional dysregulation in teens and implementing individual, family, and group-based interventions. Insightful guidance on everything from orientation to termination is enlivened by case illustrations and sample dialogues. Appendices feature 30 mindfulness exercises as well as lecture notes and 12 reproducible handouts for "Walking the Middle Path," a DBT skills training module for adolescents and their families. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print these handouts and several other tools from the book in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. See also Rathus and Miller's DBT? Skills Manual for Adolescents, packed with tools for implementing DBT skills training with adolescents with a wide range of problems.ÿ
Download or read book Suicide in Children and Adolescents written by Robert A. King and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts from all areas of mental health care address the questions of prediction and prevention of suicide in young people.
Download or read book My Family Divided written by Diane Guerrero and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The star of Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, Diane Guerrero presents her personal story in this middle grade memoir about her parents' deportation and the nightmarish struggles of undocumented immigrants and their American children"--
Download or read book Public Health Perspectives on Depressive Disorders written by Neal L. Cohen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does mental health impact public health? In 2001, the WHO recognized depressive disorders as the leading cause of disability worldwide. But most Americans who meet diagnostic criteria for major depression are untreated or undertreated. Luckily, recent advances have finally made it possible for the field of public health to address mental health in the population. Public Health Perspectives on Depressive Disorders fills a gap by identifying the tools and strategies of public health practice and by exploring their application to twenty-first-century public mental health policy and practice. By looking at depressive disorders through a public health lens, this book highlights the centrality of mental health to public health. Linking the available research on depressive illness at the population level with public mental health policy and practice, expert contributors set a research agenda that will help make mental health a central part of public health science and practice. This book is an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners to develop, facilitate, and conduct pilot and feasibility studies of promising preventive and treatment interventions that might mitigate the progression toward major depression and other mental disorders among populations at risk. The first part of the book underscores the public health significance of depressive illness by focusing on the evidence provided by recent approaches to nosology, epidemiology, illness burden, and impact on overall health. The second part looks at the social and environmental influences on depressive disorders that are critical to future efforts to prevent illness and to promote mentally healthy communities. The third and longest part addresses the vulnerability of diverse groups to depressive illness and underscore best practices to mitigate risk while improving both the preventive and therapeutic armamentaria.
Download or read book No Longer Human written by 太宰治 and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1958 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man describes his torment as he struggles to reconcile the diverse influences of Western culture and the traditions of his own Japanese heritage.
Download or read book I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter written by Erika L. Sánchez and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist! Instant New York Times Bestseller! The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but often laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican-American home. Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga’s role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed. But it’s not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. With the help of her best friend Lorena, and her first love, first everything boyfriend Connor, Julia is determined to find out. Was Olga really what she seemed? Or was there more to her sister’s story? And either way, how can Julia even attempt to live up to a seemingly impossible ideal? “Alive and crackling—a gritty tale wrapped in a page-turner. ”—The New York Times “Unique and fresh.” —Entertainment Weekly “A standout.” —NPR
