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Coombs, David W.; Hodges, Debra K.; Kohler, Connie – Alabama Counseling Association Journal, 2012
This article presents an overview of adult suicide in the United States and Alabama. This includes the latest available information on the prevalence of suicide in the US and Alabama, demographic characteristics of suicide victims, trends in suicide, and known reasons behind adult suicide. With respect to adult suicide in Alabama, it focuses on…
Descriptors: Suicide, Adults, At Risk Persons, Victims
Nagy, Stephen; Adcock, Anthony G.; Leaver-Dunn, Deidre; Elder, Craig; Jacobs, Donna P. – 1998
This report examines the behaviors and attitudes of Alabama adolescents and provides insights into changes and trends in the selected areas. Relatively few meaningful changes on risky behaviors were found. Risky health behaviors remained a serious, immediate, and future threat to the well-being of Alabama's teens. Changes were extremely modest in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Attitudes, Health Behavior
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Washington, DC. School Improvement Programs. – 1995
Like many other southern states, Alabama faces serious social and economic challenges. The 1993 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, undertaken to assess the prevalence of health-risk behaviors among students grades 9 through 12 across the United States, found that of all Alabama students: 18.2% reported that someone had offered, sold or given them illegal…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, At Risk Persons, Drinking, Drug Abuse