Growing Up Different

Mood Prep 101 ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 185-202
Author(s):  
Carol Landau
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Zero Tolerance Policy ◽  
Fitting In ◽  
A Current

Most adolescents are worried about being different and not fitting in. In this chapter, two groups that are subject to ostracism and harassment are described—LGBTQ and overweight students. Both groups have higher rates of depression, and LGBTQ students have higher rates of suicide attempts, with more than half of transgender males and nearly a third of transgender females reporting having attempted suicide in their lifetime. Included in this chapter is a description of current vocabulary about LGBTQ issues. There are conversations parents can have with both groups of students, and the chapter suggests comments to avoid making. Parents also need to self-reflect on their own biases. Overweight teens frequently are harassed, shamed, and discriminated against. Bullying of both groups is also described, along with a current college student’s story of his torturous days in high school. The need for family support is emphasized as well as the role of advocacy. For example, school systems need to establish a zero-tolerance policy toward bullying and be consistent in its implementation.

Chicana Teens, Zines, and Poetry Scenes: Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Amanda Ellis
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Political Art ◽  
Senior Year ◽  
Young Adult Novel ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Fitting In

This chapter reads closely Isabel Quintero’s 2014 young adult novel Gabi, A Girl in Pieces. Quintero’s novel, which takes the form of a year’s worth of diary entries, and includes an illustrated copy of the titular character’s zine on female body diversity, narrates the story of a young Chicana outsider’s senior year of high school. In lieu of “fitting in” Gabi the teenage poet pens her way out of loss, homophobia, lurking sexual violence, grief, and depression. Gabi, A Girl in Pieces reveals that the creation of political art, the practice of writing, and the role of Chicana poetics can serve as vital creative outlets for Chicana outsiders, be they nerds, goths, geeks, or freaks.

Crystallising the official narrative: News discourses about the killings from the Philippine government’s campaign against illegal drugs

Journalism ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 146488491986782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryll Ruth R Soriano ◽  
Clarissa C David ◽  
Jenna Mae Atun
Keyword(s):  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
Television News ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Zero Tolerance Policy ◽  
The Media ◽  
State Responses ◽  
Selection Of

News media’s construction of crime and drugs can shape and change public perceptions and influence popular acceptance of policy and state responses. In this way, media, through selection of sources and framing of narratives, act as important agents of social control, either independently or indirectly by state actors. This article examines how the Philippine government’s anti-drug campaign, and the thousands of deaths resulting from them, has been depicted by the media to the public. We conducted a discourse analysis of television news stories to extract dominant frames and narratives, finding a pattern of over-privileging of State authority as a source, resulting in a monolithic message of justifying the killing of suspects. Furthermore, the ‘event-focused’ slant, which dominates the character of reports by media, inevitably solidifies the narrative that the deaths are a necessary consequence of a national public safety campaign. By relying almost exclusively on this narrative, to the exclusion of alternative frames, the media amplifies and crystallises the state’s narrative. As we critically examine how drugs, drug use and the zero-tolerance policy are positioned through discourse in news texts, the article raises important implications to the ethics and role of journalism in politics and provides explanations relating to crime-reporting norms, values and media organisation realities in the country.

Step-by-step to stopping the cyber-bully

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 31-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
Job Design ◽  
Cyber Bullying ◽  
Traditional Bullying ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Zero Tolerance Policy ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – Describes the role of HR in addressing traditional bullying and cyber-bullying at the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – Explains how organizations can design policy guidelines to tackle the issue of bullying and, thereby, help every employee to contribute to his or her best ability. Findings – Argues that the proliferation of electronic communication has made cyber-bullying rampant in workplaces and has devastating effects on some employees. Practical implications – Advances the view that creating a zero-tolerance policy against bullying, using technological help, conducting structured interviews, providing an employee-sensitization program, crafting effective job design and, from time to time, taking employees’ opinion can go a long way in ensuring a safe workplace for all. Social implications – Shows that bullying in any form is a social menace both for employees and the organization, and it needs to be nipped in the bud. Originality/value – Provides insights into how organizations can effectively address the issue of bullying at the workplace.

Teaching War and Feeling Fear

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
School Reform ◽  
National Security ◽  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
School Staff ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Corporate Takeover

The first chapter locates Milton High School within national efforts to install militarized regimes of discipline in public education through the corporate takeover of schools, wage war under the banner of national security, and draw young people into the war-making business through fear by examining the genealogies of neoliberal school reform, zero-tolerance school policies, school militarization, and fear in U.S. politics. Knitting these strands together lends itself to an understanding of how the Milton school staff thought about the shifting purposes of education, the needs of their students, and the role of national security in their daily lives.

Relationship Difficulties and Unemployment in Attempted Suicide in an Australian Regional Center

2002 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 923-929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Lorensini ◽  
Glen Bates
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioner ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Regional Hospital ◽  
The Self ◽  
Socioeconomic Groups ◽  
Family Situation ◽  
Regional Center ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic

Over a 12-mo. period, all patients ( N = 130) presenting to an Australian regional hospital following attempted suicide were interviewed to investigate the self-reported role of unemployment and relationship difficulties in precipitating suicide attempts. Consistent with a study of the same region in 1970–1971, attempted suicide was more prevalent in women, the lower socioeconomic groups, and usually occurred following the threat of or actual separation from a partner. However, in this study attempted suicide was most prevalent for those living in a family situation rather than alone or during separation. Although many patients had made a recent visit to their general practitioner, most acted spontaneously and perceived themselves as having no one with whom they could discuss their feelings or problems.

scholarly journals The Right not to Have Rights: A New Perspective on Irregular Immigration

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-474
Author(s):  
Nanda Oudejans
Keyword(s):  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Political Subject ◽  
Zero Tolerance Policy ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Right ◽  
Academic Debate

In recent years irregular immigration has attracted increasing scholarly attention. Current academic debate casts the irregular immigrant in the role of the new political subject who acts out a right to have rights and/or as the rightless victim who is subjected to violence and abuse. However, the conception of the irregular immigrant as harbinger of political change and/or victim reifies the persistent dichotomy between inclusion and exclusion. It ignores that irregular immigrants are not by definition excluded from a normal life and that numerous immigrants live in the interstices between full legal inclusion and exclusion without democratic legal order being cast to ruin. The question that underlies this essay is: What concept of law can accommodate the unauthorized presence of immigrants (i) without reducing them to bare life, struggling to survive and/or assigning them a political agency and (ii) without taking recourse to the use of force and violence in a zero-tolerance policy? To answer this question, this article draws on what Agamben has coined the potentiality of the law and unpacks Judith Shklar’s idea of different degrees of legalism.

scholarly journals States of Self as Agents of Self-Killing: An Egogram-based Suicide Note Analysis Study in Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Dmitri Shustov ◽  
Olga Tuchina ◽  
Tatiana Agibalova ◽  
Nadezhda Zuykova
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Attempt ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Similar Distribution ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Suicide Notes ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
Suicide Note ◽  
Suicide Attempted

The article presents findings of the egogram-based suicide note analysis, which was undertaken by three experts (MDs, PhDs, certified in TA) in a sample of 26 people (36 suicide notes) in Ryazan, Russia, in 2000 and 2017. The results of the study imply that the presuicidal intrapersonal activity is quite diverse and evolving, and may vary between those who complete suicide lethally and those who survive their suicide attempt. Lethal suicides were characterised by elevated levels of Adult and Adapted Child whereas non-lethal suicide attempts showed an apparent increase in Adapted Child and negative Controlling Parent levels. The authors inferred that suicidal individuals with serious lethal intent might maintain moderate levels of Adapted Child (suffering) so as to enable Adult to accumulate energy needed to perform a fatal suicide attempt. In attempted suicides, high levels of negative Controlling Parent targeting relevant others may diffuse the energy necessary for completion of suicide. Attempted suicide egograms were illustrative of the manipulative nature of the non-lethal suicide attempts, whereas completed suicides did not. Egograms of non-lethal suicide attempts and intoxicated completed suicides had similar distribution of ego state levels, which may reflect the effect of alcohol interfering with the activity of protective Parental substructures and strengthening the role of the negative Controlling Parent targeting either one’s inner self or relevant others.Citation - APA format:Shustov, D., Tuchina, O., Agibalova, T., & Zuykova, N. (2018). States of Self as Agents of Self-Killing: An Egogram-based Suicide Note Analysis Study in Russia. International Journal of Transactional Analysis Research & Practice, 9(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.29044/v9i1p5

scholarly journals Autocriticismo e tentativas de suicídio em indivíduos com experiência de doença mental

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
Rui Campos ◽  
Ana Rainha
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Attempt ◽  
Psychiatric Disorder ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Brief Symptom Inventory ◽  
Personality Dimension ◽  
Symptom Inventory

This research examined the role of self-criticism as a personality dimension in suicide risk, assessed through the presence of at least one suicide attempt. Ninety-two adults participated, ranging in age from 20 to 65 years (M = 42.73, SD = 12.95), divided into three groups: 22 individuals with a psychiatric disorder and who previously attempted suicide, 39 individuals with a psychiatric disorder without a prior suicide attempt and 31 individuals from the community. Participants answered the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire – Short form - and the Brief Symptom Inventory. The groups were compared using an ANOVA and an ANCOVA, considering psychopathology as a co-variable. Results indicate that individuals who have attempted suicide and individuals with a psychiatric disorder without previous suicide attempts presented significantly higher levels of self-criticism compared to community individuals. No significant differences were found between the clinical groups.

Effect of religion on suicide attempts in outpatients with schizophrenia or schizo-affective disorders compared with inpatients with non-psychotic disorders

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 188-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Huguelet ◽  
Sylvia Mohr ◽  
Valérie Jung ◽  
Christiane Gillieron ◽  
Pierre-Yves Brandt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Coping ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Commit Suicide

AbstractLittle is known of the relations between psychosis, religion and suicide. One hundred and fifteen outpatients with schizophrenia or schizo-affective disorder and 30 inpatients without psychotic symptoms were studied using a semi-structured interview assessing religiousness/spirituality. Their past suicide attempts were examined. Additionally, they were asked about the role (protective or incentive) of religion in their decision to commit suicide. Forty-three percent of the patients with psychosis had previously attempted suicide. Religiousness was not associated with the rate of patients who attempted suicide. Twenty-five percent of all subjects acknowledged a protective role of religion, mostly through ethical condemnation of suicide and religious coping. One out of ten patients reported an incentive role of religion, not only due to negatively connotated issues but also to the hope for something better after death. There were no differences between groups (i.e. psychotic vs. non-psychotic patients). Religion may play a specific role in the decisions patients make about suicide, both in psychotic and non-psychotic patients. This role may be protective, a finding particularly important for patients with psychosis who are known to be at high risk of severe suicide attempts. Interventions aiming to lower the number of suicide attempts in patients with schizophrenia should take these data into account.

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