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Teen Suicide: Annotated Bibliography

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Ashley Vargas Rasheedah Alexander ENG 112-40 September 12th, 2014 Annotated Bibliography Clemmitt, Marcia. "Social Media Explosion." CQ Researcher 25 Jan. 2013: 81-104. Web. 7 Sept. 2014. From different online social media websites to virtual adventure games, software that helps people meet, talk, and work with others is getting billion of online users. The use of social media comes with a price, though. Every photo upload or click of a “like” button deposits users' personal data online, many of which gives businesses the statistics they need for advertising. To some, such data being collected is an invasion of privacy, but social media supporters say it is a little price to pay for the benefits of online socializing. Meanwhile, people criticize …show more content…

Yet researchers and mental health professionals cannot pinpoint why the rate has climbed, and they know little about what causes someone thinking about suicide to attempt it. As a result, suicide-screening tools are not very effective, and most school-based suicide-prevention programs may not reduce teen suicides. But researchers are hopeful that new studies, including large trials of three kinds of psychotherapy in adolescents, will help in understanding teen suicide and lead to better identification and treatment of high-risk teens. Meanwhile, many states are requiring instructors to be trained to recognize and respond to potentially suicidal students. Also, researchers have begun studying into physical brain characteristics that could be connected to teen suicide. It’s difficult to pinpoint why exactly suicide death rates have risen among teenagers. But Kelly Posner, a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University, says possibilities include a growth in social media and cyber bullying; a drop in antidepressant use after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2004 required antidepressant labels to carry a warning of possible suicide risk for children and adolescents; and the weak economy. There have been many reports on young teens that post online their last message, and …show more content…

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Social Media Explosion." CQ Researcher 25 Jan. 2013: 81-104. Web. 7 Sept. 2014. 2. Clemmitt, Marcia. "Social Networking." CQ Researcher 17 Sept. 2010: 749-72. Web. 8 Sept. 2014. 3. Mantel, Barbara. "Teen Suicide." CQ Researcher 12 Sept. 2014: 745-68. Web. 7 Sept. 2014. 4. Price, Tom. "Social Media and Politics." CQ Researcher 12 Oct. 2012: 865-88. Web. 8 Sept. 2014. 5. Trottier, Daniel. Social Media As Surveillance : Rethinking Visibility In A Converging World. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 10 Sept.

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