Check carefully for the expertise or background of the writer or contributor. To LINK to any article, click on the titles in BLUE Websites 1. Adolescent Suicide in the School Setting [ ] - How school staff and students can detect and intervene to prevent suicide. 2. Focus Adolescent Services [ ] - Resources and information on teen suicide, depression, personality disorders and other issues affecting teens and their families. 3. I'll Stand by You [ ] - This is a site for teens and young adults
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recognize and impossible to define” (Schlesinger, Eccles, and Gabarro, 1983). When building a team or organization, the right individuals must be selected first. A culture is then built around those individuals. The sexual assault scandal at Amherst College is a perfect example of how culture can lead to the success or failure of an organization. The scandal occurred with the college’s callous treatment of female rape victims. Amherst did not treat the female victims properly because their culture was
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45 percent of college students reported at least one occasion of binge drinking within the previous 2 weeks. March 26, 2004: The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse reports that, “More than five million high schoolers binge drink at least once a month.” As a Floridian who lives near one of the 'Spring Break" hot spots, this comes as no great shock. I guess there are a lot of parents out there who are surprised by these numbers and yet, what were they doing in college or when the drinking
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BACKGROUND/INFLUENCES/CONTRIBUTORY RELATIONSHIPS During my first year in college, I did not foresee the barriers I would face being a first-generation Latina college student and not having a family member to ask for guidance in navigating my college education. Before attending college, I was aware that once I graduated from high school I would need to work and help my family financially because the occupation that my father held, selling ice cream in a truck, was not stable. Growing up in East
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make students and teachers feel uneasy and open up the doors for accidental student casualties. In 2012 in Chicago alone, there were about 500 homicides, which is around the same number of homicides in over 20 years in the 132,000 schools across America (Despite). Compared to other places in the community, schools host the least child and teen casualties. According to another source, “for ages 5-18, about 20 students total are killed in schools each year, out of a total 55 million students in this
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sense at the time, they’re only words...right? Wrong among almost 120 million Americans who label themselves as homosexuals (LGBT) 66% of them have been verbally abused, that’s 78 million Americans. 16% or 19 million have been physically abused. And 8% or 10 million have been brutally and physically assaulted. This has become a major issue causing life threatening situations for those that are at the receiving end of these attacks. Homosexual students enrolled in school and adults in the work place
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racism but also segregation. As a teenager, Martin attempted suicide by jumping from a second story window at their home after his grandmother died of a heart attack while he was outside watching a parade. He attended
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Your peers refuse to sit next to you in class, at lunch or on the bus, classmates call you all types of names. There are always offensive notes posted to your locker every morning. Now you are defending yourself in the school yard because another student picks a fight with you and accusing you of flirting with you boyfriend and other children are jumping in and throwing punches. After the fight is broken up, you run home. You go in your room and lock your door. You take a look in the mirror to examine
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tone, and intimate topics cemented her place among the pantheon of great poets. Best known for novel The Bell Jar and her second volume of poetry, Ariel, Plath's reputation has only grown since her death in 1963. She is considered a poet of the confessional movement, which was led by Robert Lowell, but her work transcends this label and speaks to more universal truths than simply her own emotions. Although the sensational nature of her death by suicide has led some critics and readers to conflate
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Juan Carlos Cruz English 1302 Research Paper 04/16/2015 Stigma among College students with depression and Anxiety There are a lot of illnesses. We go to the doctor, we get medication and some rest to get better; most of the times the disease is gone. However, mental illness is not the same. Once the person is affected, it is not a simple process to get back to an average day. It takes time and the right treatment to get better. .. Mental illness has several symptoms that need to meet
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