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9780231177900 (cloth) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-246) and index |
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Prologue -- Introduction -- Little girl lost: Kyra -- The fighter: Enoch -- Overload: Candy -- The last stand: David -- Homo: Tucker -- Escaping death: Gita -- Shock jock: boots -- Cutter: Jill -- On the road: Cody -- Born-again virgin: Gabriella -- Afterword -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Ipe and Brownson -- Appendix 2: Enoch and his brother -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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In Teenage Suicide Notes, sociologist Terry Williams pores over the writings of a diverse group of troubled youths to better grasp the motivations behind teenage suicide and to humanize those at risk of taking their own lives. Williams evaluates young people in rural and urban contexts and across lines of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. His approach, which combines sensitive portrayals with sociological analysis, adds a clarifying dimension to the fickle and often frustrating behavior of adolescents. Williams reads between the lines of his subjects' seemingly straightforward reflections on alienation, agency, euphoria, and loss, and investigates how this cocktail of emotions can lead to suicide-or not. Rather than treating these notes as exceptional examples of self-expression, Williams situates them at the center of teenage life, linking them to abuse, violence, depression, anxiety, religion, peer pressure, sexual identity, and family dynamics. He captures the currents that turn self-destruction into an act of self-determination and proposes more effective solutions to resolving the suicide crisis. |
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suitsidaalne käitumine
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enesehävituslik käitumine
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enesevigastamine
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noorukipsühholoogia
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juhtumiuuringud
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Ameerika Ühendriigid
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Teenagers -- Suicidal behavior -- United States |
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Adolescent psychology -- United States |
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Self-mutilation -- United States |
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Self-destructive behavior -- United States |
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364.2 -053.2
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