The Effects of Neighbourhood on Adolescent Development
The number of studies concerned with the role of neighborhood in the adolescent development has been increasing recently. They show…
Well-Researched Information You Can Trust
The number of studies concerned with the role of neighborhood in the adolescent development has been increasing recently. They show…
Adolescent development, which implies biological, cognitive and psychosocial changes, is related to the existing social formations and processes. Family, peer…
All police training procedures should include at least a ten-hour block of material on the phenomenon of suicide, including attention…
There are definitional problems of what is youth and what is suicide. It is also clear, that coronial under-reporting of…
I discuss below ten programs which have the potential to alleviate suicide. All require input from non-Aboriginal sources. Two may…
The easiest path to new knowledge is to listen to attractively delivered material, preferably at times and places which suit…
Recent literature on adolescence distinguishes two separate approaches to the definition of normalcy during adolescence: psychoanalytic interpretation and empirical research….
In contemporary suicidology concerning Amerindians, there is an expressed desire for euphemisms. Shore suggests calling prevention programs ‘evaluation’ programs, being…
(a) Biomedical or ethnic-centred philosophies ‘An ethnoscientific or biomedical approach alone will lead us to a lot of mistakes.’ This…
Empowerment means giving someone the authority to act. To ‘disempower’ is to remove that authorisation. However, it has come to…
(a) Biochemical or genetic ‘predisposing’ factors The research into biochemical or genetic factors which predispose people to behave in a…
(a) The National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy There is both activity and innovation in suicide ‘prevention’ strategies inAustralia.5 The National…
Geoffrey White has a valuable metaphor in relation to suicide studies: ‘The international literature is full of studies which have…
Much of my professional life has been devoted to comparative studies: in race politics and, later, in genocide studies. Comparison…
The literature on suicide among Native American and Canadian Indian, Alaskan Native and Canadian Inuit has grown remarkably in the…
My professorial inaugural lecture at the University of New England in 1972 addressed comparative race politics in Australia, Canada, New…
(a) Empowering themselves What does it mean when researchers and strategy-devisers talk of the need for ‘indigenous’ communities to ‘empower…
At least eight factors operate within the politics and sociology of Aboriginal communities, adding to actual or attempted suicidal or…
Scientific studies of suicide have multiplied like flies since the 1920s: clinical investigations, statistical analyses, aspects of this and that,…
‘The incompletes are bad and scary, the kids who are not trying to live’. That remarkable analysis is from an…
The traditional or classic youth suicide profile is characterised by, inter alia, severe depression, feelings of hopelessness, social isolation, anger,…
Emile Durkheim’s Le Suicide, perhaps the most seminal work in the field, took a long time to be translated into…
Two Australians prominent in the suicide field have advocated the consideration of likely social factors in suicide include the following:…