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- Title: Suicidal Ideation and Attempts Among Sexual Minority Youths Receiving Social Services (Report)
- Author : Social Work
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 217 KB
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For almost 20 years, research has documented an increased risk among sexual minority youths for suicidal thoughts and behavior (D'augelli et al., 2005; McDaniel, Purcell, & D'augelli, 2001). Early research, which showed that 21 percent to 42 percent of sexual minority youths studied had attempted suicide (McDaniel et al., 2001), drew from small groups, used nonrandom sampling, and lacked heterosexual controls (Russell, 2003). More recently, studies using large, random, and representative samples have shown that 25 percent to 35 percent of sexual minority adolescents reported a suicide attempt compared with 9 percent to 13 percent of heterosexual youths (Garofalo et al., 1998; Remafedi, French, Story, Resnick, & Blum, 1998; Russell & Joyner, 2001). In the largest study to date, using data from 11,940 high school students, same-sex-oriented adolescents were twice as likely to report suicidal ideation and 2.5 times as likely to have attempted suicide as heterosexual adolescents (Russell & Joyner, 2001). In general, numerous risk factors for youth suicide have been established. These risks include depression, substance abuse, conduct and other disruptive disorders, poor interpersonal problem-solving skills, family history of suicidal behavior and psychopathology, poor parent-child relationships, physical and sexual abuse, school and work problems, media exposure to suicidal behavior, and lower levels of religiosity and family cohesion (Gould, Greenberg, Velting, & Shaffer, 2003). Homelessness among adolescents has also been linked to elevated rates of suicidal behavior, with 30 percent of runaway youths reporting a suicide attempt in one study (Stiffman, 1989). Some of these risk factors appear to be more common among sexual minority youths than other youths, especially depression (Russell & Joyner, 2001; Safren & Heimberg, 1999), substance abuse (Russell & Joyner, 2001), and hopelessness (Safren & Heimberg, 1999).