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Means, Intent, Lethality, Behaviors, And Psychiatric Diagnosis In Latina Adolescent Suicide Attempters, Carolina Hausmann-Stabile, Jill A. Kuhlberg, Luis H. Zayas, Allyson P. Nolle, Stephanie L. Cintron
Means, Intent, Lethality, Behaviors, And Psychiatric Diagnosis In Latina Adolescent Suicide Attempters, Carolina Hausmann-Stabile, Jill A. Kuhlberg, Luis H. Zayas, Allyson P. Nolle, Stephanie L. Cintron
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship
This article describes the means, intent, lethality, behavioral profiles, and psychiatric diagnoses of adolescent Latina suicide attempters. From a large, mixed-method project studying the sociocultural processes of Latina suicide attempts, we selected 76 participants for this report. In addition to quantitative research data, medical records were available for all 76 participants, as was qualitative data from in-depth interviews for 34 of them. Using the qualitative and quantitative research data, we explored intent and behavioral profiles of the suicidal adolescents. Medical records provided additional information about the means the adolescents used in their attempts, and about their psychiatric diagnoses. The lethality …
Epilepsy Postings On You Tube: Exercising Individuals’ And Organizations’ Right To Appear, Lawrence A. Kerson, Toba Schwaber Kerson
Epilepsy Postings On You Tube: Exercising Individuals’ And Organizations’ Right To Appear, Lawrence A. Kerson, Toba Schwaber Kerson
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship
Philosopher Hannah Arendt maintains that everyone has the right to appear in public as an embodied, singular individual. Because of the stigma attached to epilepsy, many with this condition are denied this right. Using grounded theory techniques, the authors analyze uploads of epilepsy on YouTube. The authors argue that personal uploads on YouTube are the only mass media examples in which those with epilepsy can exercise their right to appear without the interpretation of intermediaries. Emerging themes relating to ”the right to appear” allow social workers to deepen understanding of this and other devastating, often invisible and sometimes life-threatening illnesses.