BIB

Dralisa Young

27 March 2015

Annotated Bibliography

Kevin Breel. "Confessions of a depressed comic." Web. YouTube. Ted Talk, 27 Sep. 2013. Web. 20 Mar. 2015

In this featured Ted Talk, Kevin Breel tells the world his story of depression and how it led to suicidal thoughts. He described his depression from having a perfect life but never really being happy. He then gives statistical evidence of the high rates of suicide and how people are careless and say these deaths are not the world’s problem. With personal references Breel evaluates his life and speaks to those who have suffered with depression or have ever had suicidal thoughts. He lives now with his story on how he survived a life of confusion and overcame his shortcomings. The receptive thoughts of suicide and the taunting horrors of his past hopes to help people who might share a similar story with him.

King, Keith A., and Rebecca A. Vidourek. "Teen depression and suicide: effective prevention and intervention strategies." The Prevention Researcher 19.4 (2012): 15+. Health Reference Center Academic. Web. 20 Mar.

This article provides charts and statistical evidence on teen suicides prevalence in the United States. Keith King and Rebecca Vidourek in a prevention research describe how teens who suffer from depression are 12 times more likely to attempt to commit suicide than teens who do not suffer from depression. The purpose of the article is to compare and contrast the relationship of depression and suicide. The linkage between the two are provided to assist professionals in educating individuals of effective strategies and prevention.

King, Keith A, Catherine M Strunk, and Michael T Sorter. "Preliminary Effectiveness Of Surviving The Teens (®) Suicide Prevention And Depression Awareness Program On Adolescents' Suicidality And Self-Efficacy In Performing Help-Seeking Behaviors." The Journal Of School Health 81.9 (2011): 581-590. MEDLINE Complete. Web. 27 Mar. 2015.

This article clarifies the topic of prevention of suicide and how it is ineffective and/or effective. The article participates in a three month research with Ohio students to measure their change of thoughts after educational programs on suicide. After the third month of research students were said to be more comfortable discussing their uncomfortable feelings to a teacher or an adult they felt comfortable with. This article’s findings are to support educational programs and preventions of teenage suicide.

Kutcher, Stanley P., and Magdalena Szumilas. “Youth Suicide Prevention.” CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal 178.3 (2008): 282–285. PMC. Web. 27 Mar. 2015.

This article discusses the variations of suicide in United States, Canada, United Kingdom and New Zealand. They describe many prevention strategies to be very weak. The article has a negative approach on suicide prevention programs and how these strategies don’t help the majority. The risk factors and most common suicide victims are revealed. The availability of certain effective programs are usually not available and hard to seek described in the article. This article is intended to implement more effective services to increase the number of saved lives from suicide.

Stack, Steven, Michael Kral, and Teresa Borowski. "Exposure to Suicide Movies and Suicide Attempts: A Research Note."Sociological Focus 47.1 (2014): 61-70. ProQuest. Web. 27 Mar. 2015.

            This article evaluates the link of suicide movies to suicide attempts. It describes how suicide being brought to the public eye in movies or TV shows can spark interest or help individuals pursue their desire to commit suicide. It also explains how cigarette smoking and many other advertisements play a huge role on grasping the interest of people and how they perform these things based on the persuasive advertisements. An investigation in Austria showed how viewers that watched a suicide movie did not leave with positive thoughts and that they thought very negative and found problems they never once had. This article shows how exposure can sometimes do more harm than good. The audience of this article are sociologists who are studying how awareness to things is not always beneficial but not being knowledgeable on things can also contribute.