Youth intervention strategies with suicidal intent or ideation

Abstract

This paper explains how hard it is to consider the topic of death in a social level and how duel caused by somebody’s dead becomes more complex when dead occurs by committing suicide. Suicide has been a behavior that historically has had different connotations depending on the culture, religious beliefs, social status, etc. but generally there is a social stigma towards the family or the person trying to commit suicide. So the statistical data reported by official authorities can be less than the real data because the closest social group tries to hide the fact of the suicide for fear of “what people would say” or to avoid the complex and painful paperwork of answering questions, keeping the corpse, autopsy and other circumstances. The objective of this article is to provide the reader and specifically to clinical psychologists with a series of techniques and tools that can be useful to work with people who have suffered the loss of a family member who committed suicide, with people who have tried or are thinking about committing suicide. These tools come from the systemic theory, the brief therapy focused on solutions, narrative and the positive Psychology.