This is a presentation for the topic 'Teenage Suicide'. Topics covered in this presentation are :
i. What is Suicide?
ii. How is Self Injury different from Suicide
iii. Causes of Suicide (short clip)
iv. Protection against Suicide
v. Suicide Risk Factors
vi. Suicide Warning Signs
vii. Involvement/Role of School
viii. Postvention after suicide
ix. Steps Parents and Teens can take
12. PROTECTIVE
MEASURES TO DEAL
WITH STRESS
A protective factor is a characteristic or attribute that
reduces the likelihood of attempting or completing
suicide.
Protective factors are skills, strengths, or resources that
help people deal more effectively with stressful events.
They enhance resilience and help to counterbalance
risk factors. Protective factors can be considered to be
either personal or external-environmental.
13. PERSONAL
PROTECTIVE
MEASURES
▹ Hope for the future—optimism
▹ Sobriety
▹ Medical compliance and a sense of the importance
of health and wellness
▹ Impulse control
▹ Strong sense of self-worth or self-esteem
▹ Sense of personal control or determination
14. ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTIVE
FACTORS
▹ Strong relationships, particularly
with family members
▹ Opportunities to participate in and
contribute to school or community
projects and activities
▹ A reasonably safe and stable
environment
▹ Restricted access to lethal means
▹ Responsibilities and duties to
15. Increasing protective factors can
serve to decrease suicide risk.
Strengthening these factors should
be an ongoing process to increase
resiliency during the presence of
increased risk factors or other
stressful situations.
However, positive resistance to
suicide is not permanent, so
programs that support and maintain
protection against suicide should be
16.
17. WORLD SUICIDE
PREVENTION DAY
World Suicide Prevention
Day (WSPD) is an awareness
day observed on 10
September every year, in
order to provide worldwide
commitment and action to
prevent suicides, with various
activities around the world.
19. SUICIDE RISK
FACTORS
Risk factors are characteristics or conditions that
increase the chance that a person may try to take their
life.
Main Risk Factors include:
▹ Health Factors
▹ Environmental Factors
20. HEALTH FACTORS
▹ Mental health conditions
▹ Depression
▹ Bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder
▹ Schizophrenia
▹ Borderline or antisocial personality disorder
▹ Conduct disorder
▹ Psychotic disorders, or psychotic symptoms in the context
of any disorder
▹ Anxiety disorders
▹ Substance abuse disorders
▹ Serious or chronic health condition and/or pain
21. ENVIRONMENTAL
FACTORS
▹ Stressful Life Events which may include a death,
divorce, or job loss
▹ Prolonged Stress Factors which may include
harassment, bullying, relationship problems
▹ Access to Lethal Means including alcohol and drugs
▹ Exposure to another person’s suicide, or to graphic
or sensationalized accounts of suicide
22. OTHER RISK
FACTORS INCLUDE
▹ One or more prior suicide attempts
▹ Family history of mental disorder or substance abuse
▹ Family history of suicide
▹ Family violence
▹ Physical or sexual abuse
▹ Keeping firearms in the home
▹ Chronic physical illness, including chronic pain
▹ Incarceration
24. SUICIDE WARNING
SIGNS
Suicide warnings signs
can be noted in person
who is going through the
tendency of taking his
life away or doesn’t want
to live anymore
25. SIGNS POINTIING
TOWARDS
SUICIDAL TENDENCY
▹ Appearing depressed
or sad most of the
time.
▹ Taking about suicide
▹ Withdrawing from
family and friends
▹ Experiencing a
change in personality
▹ Losing interest in
most activities
26. If any of these signs is
raging in a person it
means they need help.
The thoughts about
suicide can be prevented
by talking about the
problem.
It is noted that in most of
the cases of suicide these
signs will appear but in
some cases neither can
appear and still person is
suffering from suicidal
28. MYTHS ABOUT
SUICIDE
▹ All people who attempt suicide
want to die.
▹ Talking about suicide will
cause someone to become
suicidal.
▹ People think that teens do it for
attention.
▹ Antidepressants cause teens
to complete suicide.
32. NEED FOR
POSTVENTION
VULNERABILITY & RISK
▹ The knowledge of another’s suicide is likely to
influence a young person’s risk of suicide.
▹ The spread of suicide is referred to as contagion and
can result in suicide clusters where one suicide attempt
closely follows the first.
▹ There are many factors affecting the risk of suicide
for a deceased person’s peer.
33. WHAT IS
POSTVENTION?
▹ Postvention refers to the actions taken to support the
community after someone dies by suicide.
▹ Good postvention support can help people to grieve
and recover and can be a critical element of preventing
further suicides from happening.
34. PRACTICES FOR
CONDUCTING
POSTVENTION
▹ Verifying death and cause
▹ Coordinating resources
▹ Disseminating Information
▹ Supporting the most impacted by death
▹ Commemorating the deceased
▹ Proving psycho services should additional suicides occur
▹ Provide psycho education on grieving, depression, post
traumatic stress and suicide
▹ Provide psycho education on grieving, depression, post
traumatic stress disorder, suicide
36. STEPS PARENTS CAN
TAKE
▹ Get your child help
▹ Support your child
▹ Become informed
▹ Restrict access to weapons
37. STEPS PEERS CAN
TAKE
▹ Take your friend’s actions
seriously.
▹ Encourage your friend to seek
professional help, accompany if
necessary.
▹ Talk to an adult you trust. Don’t
be alone in helping your friend.
▹ Don’t keep the secret.