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Toward understanding youth suicide in an Australian rural community

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Australia has one of the highest rates of youth suicide in the western world, especially among rural men. This paper discusses the social construction of this issue in Australia and explores the issue through interviews with 30 young people and 12 key informants from a rural town in NSW. Findings suggest that young people struggle to deal with conflict in social relationships, that community discourses shape young people's understandings and that suicide is talked about in reference to depression. Implications for youth suicide prevention in Australian rural communities are discussed.

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  • Bourke, Lisa, 2003. "Toward understanding youth suicide in an Australian rural community," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 57(12), pages 2355-2365, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:57:y:2003:i:12:p:2355-2365
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    1. Roen, Katrina & Scourfield, Jonathan & McDermott, Elizabeth, 2008. "Making sense of suicide: A discourse analysis of young people's talk about suicidal subjecthood," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 67(12), pages 2089-2097, December.
    2. White, Jennifer & Morris, Jonathan, 2010. "Precarious spaces: Risk, responsibility and uncertainty in school-based suicide prevention programs," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 71(12), pages 2187-2194, December.
    3. Scott J. Fitzpatrick & Bronwyn K. Brew & Donna M. Y. Read & Kerry J. Inder & Alan Hayes & David Perkins, 2019. "Rethinking Suicide in Rural Australia: A study Protocol for Examining and Applying Knowledge of the Social Determinants to Improve Prevention in Non-Indigenous Populations," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(16), pages 1-13, August.

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