Suicidal Ideation in Ethnic Minority and Majority Adolescents in Utrecht, The Netherlands

Crisis ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 202-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.D. van Bergen ◽  
J.H. Smit ◽  
A.J.L.M. van Balkom ◽  
E. van Ameijden ◽  
S. Saharso
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Minority Adolescents ◽  
The Individual

We investigated the prevalence and explored the vulnerability to suicidal ideation across several ethnic minority versus ethnic majority adolescents in the city of Utrecht in The Netherlands. Exploratory analyses were conducted on a dataset obtained from the Municipal Health Services in Utrecht. We examined whether ethnic minority adolescents are at risk for suicidal ideation because of a family background of migration, social-economic position and certain family factors, which influence psychological constellations. We found that levels of suicidal ideation among adolescents of Turkish background were significantly higher than in both majority and other minority adolescents. The Turkish adolescents at risk for suicidal ideation reported that they do not enjoy being at home with their families. Psychological factors, in particular lack of self-pride and the idea of not becoming successful in life, appeared to be important, as well as feelings of loneliness. Suicidal ideation was not found equally across all ethnic minority groups. A history of migration, ethnic minority status, or low socioeconomic status were not sufficient to explain the variation across ethnicities. Our results suggest that specific social-cultural factors, contextualized in the individual and located in the family environment, are relevant in explaining the disproportionate rates for Turkish adolescents in Utrecht.

scholarly journals A Comparison of Excessive Drinking, Binge Drinking and Alcohol Dependence in Ethnic Minority Groups in the Netherlands: The HELIUS Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-76
Author(s):  
Jan G.C. van Amsterdam ◽  
Annemieke Benschop ◽  
Simone van Binnendijk ◽  
Marieke B. Snijder ◽  
Anja Lok ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Alcohol Dependence ◽  
Binge Drinking ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Excessive Drinking ◽  
Helius Study

Ethnic Affairs Policy

1990 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Official Position ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Treat All

AbstractDanish practice regarding ethnic minorities is rather inconsistent and unco-ordinated. Danish practice at its best attempts to enhance the competence of the individual members of ethnic minority groups in order to equip them to participate more fully in Danish society. At its worst, Danish administration repudiates the special needs of ethnic minorities. In most circumstances, Denmark's official position is relatively tolerant and yet passive as to the fate of ethnic minorities. Assimilation is an almost irresistable pressure for tiny ethnic minorities in a largely homogeneous society when the following ingredients are combined: • the failure to officially acknowledge the existence of minorities as such; and • the foundation principle of Danish administration of the actual equality of all people and the concomitant obligation to treat all alike.

Efficacy of an intensive home-based educational intervention programme for 4- to 6-year-old ethnic minority children in the Netherlands

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy van Tuijl ◽  
Paul P.M. Leseman ◽  
Jan Rispens
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Emergent Literacy ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Intervention Programme ◽  
Dutch Version ◽  
Home Based

This paper reports the results of an intensive home-based educational intervention programme for 4- to 6-year-old children at risk of educational failure. The programme, Opstap Opnieuw (“Step-up Anew”), was developed in the Netherlands as an alternative to the well-known HIPPY-programme, of which a Dutch version was carried out in the early 1990s for ethnic minority groups, without apparent success. Building on the basic intervention strategy of HIPPY (i.e., involving mothers and paraprofessional aides), a new curriculum was developed based on recent theoretical insights in cognitive and language development, and emergent literacy and numeracy. The programme was carried out with Turkish and Moroccan immigrant families. For the Turkish group, the results were partly positive: There were modest effects of the programme on cognitive development and emergent numeracy, small effects on Turkish language development, but no effects on Dutch language development. In contrast, for the Moroccan group the effects were disappointing. The results are evaluated with respect to recent insights into effective strategies and essential ingredients of early educational intervention programmes.

Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among ethnic minority groups in England: results of a national household survey

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 1369-1377 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. CRAWFORD ◽  
U. NUR ◽  
K. McKENZIE ◽  
P. TYRER
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Medical Attention ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional

Background. Socio-cultural factors impact on the extent of suicidal ideation and attempted suicide but the relative importance of these factors among people from different ethnic groups in Britain has not been explored. We examined the prevalence of suicidal ideation, the incidence of attempted suicide, and the extent of service utilization following attempted suicide among representative samples of White, Irish, Black Caribbean, Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani individuals living in England.Method. We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the EMPIRIC study, a cross-sectional survey of 4281 adults aged 16–74 years, living in private households in England.Results. Lifetime suicidal ideation was generally lower in ethnic minority groups but higher among those born in the UK than those who migrated to England as adults. Risk factors for suicidal ideation have much in common across different ethnic groups; current symptoms of mental distress being the most important. White British and Irish respondents were twice as likely to receive medical attention following attempted suicide than those from other ethnic groups.Conclusions. Services need to adapt in order to ensure that people from ethnic minorities receive appropriate psychological and medical care following attempted suicide.

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