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Matthews, Emily L.; Townsend, Michelle L.; Gray, Annaleise S.; Grenyer, Brin F. S. – School Psychology International, 2021
School communities face challenges in responding effectively to the rising incidence of student self-harm. Evidence-informed guidelines may provide a platform for schools to provide better responses and improve the outcomes of students who engage in self-harm. This paper critically reviews policies published in English targeted for schools or…
Descriptors: School Policy, Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice, Self Destructive Behavior
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Buckley, L.; Chapman, R. L.; Sheehan, M.; Cunningham, L. – Educational Studies, 2012
There is a continued need to consider ways to prevent early adolescent engagement in a variety of harmful risk-taking behaviours for example, violence, road-related risks and alcohol use. The current prospective study examined adolescents' reports of intervening to try and stop friends' engagement in such behaviours among 207 early adolescents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Drinking
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Page, Andrew; Taylor, Richard; Hall, Wayne; Carter, Gregory – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2009
The population attributable risk (PAR) of mental disorders compared to indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) for attempted suicide was estimated for Australia. For mental disorders, the highest PAR% for attempted suicide was for anxiety disorders (males 28%; females 36%). For SES, the highest PAR% for attempted suicide in males was for…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Employment Level, Females, Mental Disorders
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Rossow, Ingeborg; Ystgaard, Mette; Hawton, Keith; Madge, Nicola; van Heeringen, Kees; de Wilde, Erik Jan; DeLeo, Diego; Fekete, Sandor; Morey, Carolyn – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2007
How differences in drinking patterns may affect the impact of alcohol consumption on deliberate self-harm among adolescents is explored in this international comparative study. Schools in Australia, Belgium, England, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Norway (N = 30,532) were surveyed. In all countries the risk of deliberate self-harm was…
Descriptors: Drinking, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Coram, Stella – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
The athlete role model has emerged as the new pastor invested with the task of leading young people classed "at-risk" from entering into self-destructive pathways. The logic invested in the athlete role model is that young people identify with their sporting heroes and in the process try to emulate them. This holds for the major sporting…
Descriptors: Role Models, Athletes, Young Adults, Foreign Countries
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Patton, George C.; Hemphill, Sheryl A.; Beyers, Jennifer M.; Bond, Lyndal; Toumbourou, John W.; McMorris, Barbara J.; Catalano, Richard F. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: To ascertain the association between pubertal stage and deliberate self-harm. Method: Cross-sectional survey of 12- to 15-year-olds in 300 secondary schools in the U.S. state of Washington in February-April 2002 and the Australian state of Victoria in June-August 2002. A total of 3,332 students in grades 7 and 9 provided complete data…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Sexuality, Brain, Correlation