Risk Factors for Suicide and Attempted Suicide among Young People

By A. Beautrais. Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry (Print), 2000

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Family, peer and school connectedness in final year secondary school students (2008, background): “Young people are likely to be more vulnerable if they have one of these risk factors, and an increase of two or more is considered to intensify the risk of self-harm and suicide (Beautrais, 2000).”
Adolescent suicide and suicidal behavior. (2006, methodology): “…youth in the United States are firearms, hanging, and poisoning, respectively, whereas in most other Western countries hanging and vehicular exhaust predominate, followed by firearms and poisoning (Beautrais, 2000a; C. Cantor & Neulinger, 2000; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005).”
Social Control and Youth Suicidality: Situating Durkheim's Ideas in a Multilevel Framework (2008, background): “Several contemporary studies, however, find both imitation and depression to be highly important for predicting suicidal behaviors (Baller and Richardson 2002; Beautrais 2000; Brezo et al. 2006; Mann et. al 1999; Stack 2005; Thorlindsson and Bernburg 2004; Thorlindsson and Bjarnason 1998).”