Monday, November 25, 2019

Youth Suicide Rise: Articles Index



Youth Suicide Rise: Articles Index (In Progress)


This is the current list of planned and completed posts in the Youth Suicide Rise (YSR) project. Titles and subtitles are tentative. Content gets continually updated.  If any of the text below seems a bit cryptic now, it should make sense once the relevant article is written.

Please read first the statement of purpose for The Shores of Academia site.

Preliminaries:


Youth Suicide Rise: Introduction

Proposed Explanations in the News Media: a Recent Sample

Prevention and the Youth Suicide Rise Project

Call for Participation: Youth Suicide Research Forum?


Suicide Data:


Child Suicides Double in a Decade

The Rise: Rate Fluctuation

The Rise: Rate Anomalies

The Rise In Historical Context

Child Suicide: Age and Sex

Child Suicide: Race and Ethnicity

The Rise: Age Trends

The Rise: Boys and Girls

The Rise: Sex and Age

The Rise: Sex Ratio Trend

Female Share of Youth Suicides

The Rise: Race and Ethnicity

The Rise: Regions and Rurality

The Rise: Suicide Methods (Boys)

The Rise: Suicide Methods (Girls)

The Rise: Demographics

The Rise: Tween Suicide Trends

The Rise: Teenage Cohorts

The Rise: Excess Deaths by Child Age

The Rise and Adult Suicide

Millennial Changes in Child and Adult Suicide

Childhood Trauma and Youth Suicide Rates

Youth Suicide: Adult versus Peer Influence

Youth Suicide: Cumulative Adult Influence

Childhood Trauma: Adult Fatal Injuries



The Rise: Illusion or Reality?

Early Teens:  Why parts of the data require caution
CDC: Suffocation and Intent

Girls and Boys: Implications of Differing Rates
baselines, normal distribution, fallacies

Kids and Adults: Age Groups Comparisons

Age Cohorts: Time after Time

Parenting Generations: Suicide, Drug Overdoses, and Other Death Data

Demographics, Geography, Urbanization, Seasonality

International Data and Comparisons

Homicide, Accidents, and Suicide: Partly Complimentary?


Data and Causality


Warning: Suicide and Causality
Do not conflate risk factors with causes of suicide
Triggers and motivations versus volition
Scientific and social objectivity

Statistical vs Probabilistic vs Deterministic Causation
the absence of X, math game odds and primes

Data and Math: When Linear Relationships Have Nonlinear Effects

Data and Math: Family Influence Amplification
multiple family members, two parents two eyes

Intermediate Factors:


Suicide and Suicidality: Needles in a Haystack?
Are Teen Suicide Attempts Safer Than Pregnancies?

Suicide and Mental Health: Trend Similarities and Differences
Depression: Destructive or Protective?
 Stress and Anxiety: Worrying about Measures
Insomnia Nation: Sleep and Suicide

The 2007 Recession: The rapid rise and slow fall of economic stress


Proposed Explanations:


Are Suicide Attempts Getting More Lethal?
Has Firearms Access Increased Teen Suicide Rates?

Social Media and Smart Phones: the Evil Twins or the Twin Scapegoats?
Why both the theory and its negation are plausible
Bad science: correlation and causality, bad models and effect sizes

Bullying and Cyberbullying: Blaming the Kids
When data cease to matter
Bullycide: How news media distort reality

Child Maltreatment and The Opium Epidemic: The Neglected Hypothesis

Pop Psychology: The Extraordinary Ordinary
Scholastic Stress: Academic pressures and  standardized testing
Fatal Protection: Spoiled kids, bulldozer parents, and the cuddled mind

Black Box Warnings: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Effect Hypotheses

Antidepressants and Teen Suicide: Lost in the Dark

Media Contagion: Dead Kids as Celebrities

Religion: God and Suicide

Social Contagion: Family and Peer Suicides

The Body: Obesity and Puberty
contraception and depression

The Teen Taboo: Less Sex Less Happiness?

Suicide Indoctrination: The Message that Hurt Feelings Kill


Possible Speculations:


EMF (reduced melatonin etc. )
Nutrition (junk food etc. )
Environmental poisoning (pesticides, plastics, etc.)

Notes: 

The category Possible Speculations is meant for issues that might be relevant but where I have yet to encounter sufficient data and theory to justify discussing the matter of plausibility.  Further investigation and future developments might change this status of a particular factor.

Thanks to John Ackerman (Nationwide Children's Hospital) for noticing that I (inexplicably) omitted to mention the (crucial) section on international data.


Question: Are there any proposed explanations (worth investigating) missing from the list?


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