Intervention Strategies: Environmental Risk Reduction for Youth Suicide (IN: Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Youth Suicide. Volume 3: Prevention and Interventions in Youth Suicide)

The author studies environmental risk reduction as an intervention strategy for reducing suicide. 2 issues are addressed: What predisposes an adolescent to commit suicide? & What methods do adolescents use? She concludes that the majority of risk centres on real & created violence, & factors of neglect & loss. Thus intervention should decrease the amount of violence, limit the availability of lethal agents (e.g. guns) & establish education programs for youth, parents, & the public. (CM)