Research on Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Elderly

This research paper will present, compare and contrast the topic of suicide among the adolescent and the elderly. Focus will also include a description of an epidemiological, behavioral, and educational diagnosis. Both of these groups have problems with their suicide rates and also with the reasons behind the depression and suicide that they face. With adolescents, suicide risks come more from the problems that are faced with drugs, school, peer pressure, and other concerns. For the elderly, however, the reasons usually relate more to health problems, a lack of family and friend support, and other issues that people face as they get older.
Here, therefore, it is important to examine the issues behind adolescent suicide as well as the issues behind eRelderly suicide. In Emile Durkheim’s (1997) book Suicide, he discusses not only the reasons and causes regarding suicide but also the components of sociological theory that show it is not only what comes from within a person that matters but also their outside environment and the things that happen to them throughout their lives. This gives strong evidence that peer pressure and or a lack of a good support system can affect suicide rates. Suicide among the Adolescents
Determining why children and adolescents commit suicide is a concern that many individuals in the helping professions face. Obviously, they commit suicide because they are depressed in many instances, but it is also accurate to say that there are other reasons why many of these adolescents choose to take their own lives. Some of them are involved in substance abuse and other issues that cause them to think suicide is the right idea. Others are involved with crowds of other adolescents that drag them down into painful issues and problems that they have trouble facing. When this happens, some of these individuals begin to feel that they are trapped in these problems, and the only way that some of them find to escape those problems is through