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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED334503 AUTHOR: Feinleib, Marcia R., Ed.


TITLE: Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Youth
Suicide. Volume 3: Prevention and Interventions in Youth
Suicide.

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1989
NOTE: 319 p.; For other volumes in this series, see CG 023
516-519.

ABSTRACT: Commissioned papers by a work group on prevention
and interventions in youth suicide are presented in this
document. Included are: (1) "Primary Prevention: A
Consideration of General Principles and Findings for the
Prevention of Youth Suicide" (Robert Felner); (2) "A
Critical Review of Preventive Intervention Efforts in
Suicide, with Particular Reference to Youth Suicide" (David
Shaffer and K. Bacon); (3) "Overview of Prevention Efforts
in Adolescent Suicide" (Betsy S. Comstock, Jane T. Simmons,
and Jack L. Franklin); (4) "Community Response to
Adolescent Suicide Clusters" (Betsy S. Comstock, Jane T.
Simmons, and Jack L. Franklin); (5)
"Prevention/Intervention Programs for Suicidal Adolescents"
(Jane T. Simmons, Betsy S. Comstock, and Jack L. Franklin);
(6) "Characteristics of Suicide Prevention/Intervention
Programs: Analysis of a Survey" (Jack L. Franklin, Betsy S.
Comstock; Jane T. Simmons, and Mark Mason); (7)
"Psychological Autopsies of Youth Suicide" (Robert E.
Litman); (8) "Gay Male and Lesbian Youth Suicide"
(Paul Gibson); (9) "Issues for Survivors" (Curtis
Mitchell); (10) "Prevention of Adolescent Suicide Among
American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples" (James W.
Thompson); (11) "Suicide Prevention and Intervention among
Asian Youth" (Elena S. Yu, Ching-Fu Chang, William T. Liu.
and Marilyn Fernandez); (12) "Black Youth Suicide:
Literature Review with a Focus on Prevention" (F.M. Baker);
(13) "Hispanic Suicide in the Southwest, 1980-82" (Jack C.
Smith, James A. Mercy, Mark L. Rosenberg); (14) "The Role
of Volunteer Workers in Suicide Prevention Centers"
(Barbara P. Wyatt); (15) "Preventing Suicide by Improving
the Competency of Caregivers" (Bryan Tanney); (16) "The
Samaritans and the Prevention of Youth Suicide" (Richard G.
Katzoff); (17) "Evaluation and Management of Suicidal Risk
in Chemically Dependent Adolescents" (John E. Meeks); (18)
"Overview of Early Detection and Treatment Strategies for
Suicidal Behavior in Young People" (Susan J. Blumenthal and
David J. Kupfer); (19) "Specific Treatment Modalities for
Adolescent Suicide Attempters" (Paul D. Trautman); (20)
"Perspectives of Youth on Preventive Intervention
Strategies" (Iris M. Bolton); (21) "Mass Media and Youth
Suicide Prevention" (Alan L. Berman); (22) "Intervention
Strategies: Environmental Risk Reduction for Youth Suicide"
(Pamela C. Cantor); and (23) "School-Based Prevention
Programs" (Barry D. Garfinkel). (BHK)

KEY DESCRIPTORS: Adolescents-; Young-Adults
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Intervention-; *Prevention-; *Suicide-;
*Youth-Problems

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