Course overview This basic-level course explores suicidal thoughts and behavior in the global youth population. The course aims to merge different research analysis and summaries from different peer- reviewed literatures, therapy guidelines and research institutions with primary focus on the local and urban drivers of suicidal ideation and outcomes in the global youth population. Earlier
research attempts to understand the drivers of suicidal trends globally identified a few key risk factors. However, in recent years, general population surveys centered on suicidal thoughts has identified a complex interplay of factors actively driving the triggers, method, and outcomes of suicidal behaviors.
INTRODUCTION
Over the past few decades, public healthcare policies on suicidal ideation among the youth population have surfaced in various parts of the world. Partially, this is in response to a newly observed uptick in the rate of suicide among this population. Globally, suicide is considered one of the leading causes of death in late childhood and adolescent. Far from it, the direct consequence of suicide is not only the resulting death but also the disruption of different psychosocial and socioeconomic indicators in regions where these trends are notorious. From the economic standpoint, suicide decimates the population of able bodies, productive young adults who could have positively contributed to the economic drivers of wealth and domestic products in a region. Earlier research attempts to understand the drivers of suicidal trends globally identified a few key risk factors pushing this observation. Specific personality disorders, mental disorders, genetic loading, exposure to inspiring models, availability of means of committing suicide, and triggering psychosocial factors were identified as primary and secondary triggers of suicidal thought and ideation in the global youth population. However, in recent times, population surveys centered on suicidal thoughts in Born in 1987 on a small island in Cuba, William had lived a relatively quiet and uneventful life. Early in life, he had everything he wanted - a personal apartment in his father’s gigantic mansion, a monthly gathering with an extended family of 30, and bi-monthly trips with his father and siblings to. As a devoted Hindu, William’s parents lived a relatively conservative life until their unfortunate death in the 13th year of Williams's life. They both died in a mishap on one of their frequent parents- only excursions to Africa. Their bodies were never recovered. As the second child and first male in a family of seven, William was devastated and mentally withdrew for years in a way that would later almost cost him his life. In Hinduism, suicide is spiritually unacceptable. When It All Started Two months after his parents’ death, William and his siblings were shipped off to Brazil to live with a relative. The mansion in Cuba was claimed by a financial institution William’s father had unresolved dealings with. In Brazil, William sought refuge in the restorative arm of religion, weathering the storm of social withdrawal for years on end. Five years after his parents’ death, William middle-school education, hoping a newly found love for architecture would calm his wandering thoughts and make him live in the moment for once. However, the mental and social withdrawal continued. William’s nights were chaotic, with flashes of memories of his father and vivid images from a boating incident in his youth that never left his mind. For years, he had enjoyed no nights of rest without these flashes. Socially withdrawn and struggling to confide in people, William had no immediate help from family and acquaintances. Brazil’s low population of Hindus and no basic religious footprint of Hinduism meant William had no refuge in Brazil like he did in his last few months in Cuba. He could not fit in perfectly with the Christianity his foster parents had introduced him to. Case Study William’s Early Life S even years after his parents’ death, William continued to struggle with flashes, midnight sleep crises, and social withdrawal. William’s school social worker noticed how hard
the general population have unraveled other complex interplays of factors actively driving the method, triggers, and outcome of suicide. This course is designed to create a midpoint between the current study observations on suicide trends and the study reports generated over the years. This course merge different research reports, analyses, and summaries from different peer-reviewed literature, therapy guidelines, and research institutions with a primary focus on the local and urban drivers of suicidal ideation and outcomes in the global youth population. Models explaining the trends and outcome, including the recently described neuroendocrine mechanism relevant for understanding and predicting adolescent suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescents, will be considered (Bilsen, 2018). A comprehensive course discussion will focus on prescribed therapy options, risk factors score, puberty hormone links, sex differences, and trends in youth suicide globally (Ho et al., 2022). Aggregating this information will provide a modern, research-backed view of the complexities of suicidal thoughts and behavior and the verified management options approved in the global youth population. he struggled in his studies and with people. She developed an unusual interest in his case and found out all she could about the unfortunate happenings in William’s earlier years and how he had struggled to adjust in Brazil. On one of his occasional breakdowns, William was admitted to the school clinic with disorientation, an inability to respond to simple questions, and symptoms consistent with an acute panic attack. He was subsequently transferred to a municipal care center (government created networks of primary care clinics) for medical evaluation. Dr. Lero, an emergency care specialist, attended to him and subsequently referred him to a psychiatric care facility. William, now in his early twenties, was completely detached from his immediate environment, the years of social withdrawal and anxiety having taken a huge toll on him. Suicidal Ideation, Attempt, and Death in the Youth Population: An Overview Suicidal ideation has simply been described as a consideration and factor-triggered desire to end one’s life. Typically, suicidal ideation ranges from a relatively passive desire of wanting to die to active ideation of actually attempting suicide. Studies leveraging real-time measures and active patient tracking have demonstrated that community-based adolescents who eventually go ahead with this ideation go through many stages from planning to execution. Unlike in ideation, suicide attempts are active actions to deliberately ends one’s life. The most common method among youth and adolescents is drug overdose, handling, and using sharp objects to inflict potentially mortal injuries (Cha et al., 2018). Suicide attempts among youth and adolescents occur in the context of a plan, although a large percentage of this population attempt suicide without a plan. Death by suicide is the most reported outcome of suicidal ideation among the youth population. This fatal action to deliberately end one’s life is predicated on multiple factors ranging from social to financial to medical. Although there are distinct patterns of suicidal ideation, attempt, and death across geographical locations, it appears the triggering factors are largely similar in concept. In some regions, access to lethal means tips the balance and significantly shapes
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