Abstract
Objective:
Suicide in adolescents is a many-sided behavior that is effected by sociocultural factors, genetic, biological predispositions, psychiatric disorders and symptoms, stress, hard life conditions and poor social supports. Although wishing to die and harm himself are the bases of suicidal behaviour, clinical evaluation can be difficult due to the immaturity and variability of death concept in adolescents. Suicidal behaviour in adolescents will be discussed in the frame of motivational definition.
Method:
Published research studies and reviews on adolescent suicides have been reviewed and 43 of them have been used. Furthermore, classical papers have been searched to obtain knowledge about suicide behaviour.
Results:
Anger and impulsive suicides in adolescents have frequently been reported as a response to difficulties, deprivations or wrong perceives. Several social health models have to be formed for preventing suicide because of firearms and sensational media presentations getting more prevalent today and education is also becoming more important. It is reported that firearms have been the most important effect in adolescent suicides. The frequency of using firearms for suicides especially in boys is increasing the rates of death.
Discussion:
Increasing mortality inci- dance rates related with suicide and better defined factors dealt with prescience of psychiatric and social morbidities in the last days, future studies are required for determining risk factors and preventing methods in adolescent suicide behavior.
Keywords: Adolescent, suicide, behaviour
