Preventing Youth Suicide Through Education (IN: Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Youth Suicide. Volume 4: Strategies for the Prevention of Youth Suicide)

This paper focuses on potential interventions & research in the educational sector to prevent youth suicide. The author feels that the rise in youth disorders & the accompanying rise in youth suicide is generally due to decline in the quality of environments surrounding youth. He discusses the changes that caused this decline & reviews education related solutions & appropriate research strategies. (CM)