A recent study shows that maintaining relationships with peers and adult personnel at school leads to fewer suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts among high school students.will probably remember the scene where Hannah Baker visits her school counsellor as she seriously considers suicide. The counsellor proves not to be up to the task and fails to fully grasp the young woman’s distress, who ends her life not long after.
The scene illustrates the role, in this case negative, that a relationship between young people and the adult personnel of a high school can play in the prevention of suicide attempts in adolescents. A recent study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry confirms the importance of these bonds.Participants of the study were invited to name seven people who they considered their closest friends at school.
The gap between the students who declared being able to confide in at least one adult at their high school and those who couldn’t proved to be large: 8.3% for the high school which was scored the lowest and 53.4% for that scoring highest.The results showed that the students who had few friends and were not part of a group were more susceptible to suicidal thoughts and were more likely to attempt suicide than others.
An increase of 20% in suicide attempts was observed in high schools where 10% of the students felt isolated from adults. Inversely, there were fewer suicide attempts in schools where students and their close friends share close relationships with the same adult, and where a smaller number of “trustworthy” adults were named by a larger proportion of students.
In light of these results, the researchers encourage the development of student groups at school institutions aimed at promoting positive social behaviors and the inclusion of trained adults in these groups to interact with and help students in case of need.
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