Resource Tag: SIGNIFICANT OTHERS. PARENTS

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This study examined the differences between 52 male & 72 female college students in their blaming of parents for a child’s suicide. Ages of the victim were varied to see if this would influence both blaming attitudes & attitudes toward the victim’s mental health. Results revealed men to be more blaming of parents than were […]

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Decisions by university officials not to notify a student’s parents following a suicide attempt on campus have been severely criticized by some observers. Although courts have not imposed a parental notice requirement, the practice is advantageous to students in many situations. The author recommends a system of notification that relies primarily upon nonmedical student affairs […]

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With survey data collected primarily from peer support group participants, the authors compared stigmatization responses of 462 parents losing children to suicide with 54 other traumatic death survivors, & 24 child natural death survivors. Parents who encountered harmful responses & strained relations with family members & non-kin reported heightened grief difficulties. After controlling for time […]

When suicidal behaviour is reported, student affairs officers on many American campuses notify parents as one component of a multifaceted campus suicide prevention plan. In response to proposals to mandate parent notification, the author argues that practical considerations warrant against expanding state laws to require notification following campus suicide attempts. The recent experience with parent […]

This study investigated cause-specific deaths at 1 to 25 years in offspring of Danish parents previously admitted as psychiatric inpatients. A population-based cohort study was conducted. The highest observed relative risk was for homicide in young & older children with affected mothers or fathers. In almost one-fourth of the suicides, there was a history of […]

A community sample of 1920 adolescents in China participated in an epidemiological study. Parents completed a structured questionnaire including child suicidal behaviour, illness history, mental health problems, family history, parenting, & family environment. Multiple logistic regression was used for data analysis. Overall, 2.4% of the sample talked about suicide in the previous 6 months, 3.2% […]

This study of parents bereaved by their sons’ suicides drew on psychological autopsy data but used qualitative analytic methods. 14 semi-structured interviews were conducted. Some parents represented their sons as victims who were cruelly destroyed by external forces while others portrayed them as agents of their own destruction. Either way, their narratives were dominated by […]

This study analysed female adolescent-family relations, believed to be one of the significant factors in female adolescents’ suicide attempts, from a multidimensional perspective. The subjects were 52 Turkish female adolescents who had attempted suicide & 52 normal female adolescents from two different secondary schools. Results revealed the general stress level of those who attempted suicide […]

Five hypotheses were tested for this study, using a database that includes incident-level information on over 22,000 homicides in Chicago during the years 1965-1994. Findings do not support the hypothesis of differential risk of suicide following filicide by genetic parents & stepparents. A replication of previous work indicates: filicides with multiple victims are more likely […]

13 cases from 1995-1998 were retrospectively identified from a larger project on adolescent unnatural death in northern Sweden. 10 families agreed to participate in open interviews. These took place 15-25 months after the suicide & data gathered was analyzed according to a grounded theory model. At the time of the interview, the families were still […]

The rate & predictors of parental detection of youth self-harm behaviour & relationship with help-seeking were examined in 7,036 parent-child dyads from the 1999 & 2004 surveys of Mental Health of Children & Young People in Great Britain. Youth self-harm behaviour was reported by 463 children & adolescents but only 190 of the parents. Reports […]

Background  Data from a community-based longitudinal study were used to investigate the association between childhood adversities, interpersonal difficulties during adolescence, and suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood. Methods  A community sample of 659 families from Upstate New York was interviewed in 1975, 1983, 1985 to 1986, and 1991 to 1993. During the 1991-1993 […]

This article presents the development of an anti-group among a group of parents whose children committed suicide. All the participants but two were children of Holocaust survivors (i.e. second-generation Holocaust survivors); these two were married to second-generation Holocaust survivors, so that in all cases, the son who committed suicide had at least one parent who […]

An ecological developmental model of adolescent suicidality was used to inform a hierarchical logistic regression analysis of longitudinal interactions between parent, peer, & school relations & suicide attempts. Reanalyzing data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, it was found that parent relations were the most consistent protective factor, & among boys with prior […]

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