Teaching Suicide Awareness and Prevention 2019

SUICIDE AWARENESS & PREVENTION MODULE 2018
TEST: ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SUICIDE
True False 1. The urge to kill oneself is inherited.
True False 2. Teenage suicide has increased in the last 20 years.
True False 3. A teenager who attempts suicideisjust an attention-seeker.
True False 4. A teenager who attempts suicidereally doesn'twanttodie but just
wants the pain to go away.
True False 5. All teenagers who attempt suicide have a mental problem
True False 6. More males than females succeed in killing themselves
True False 7. Most suicides occur without warning.
True False 8. More people kill themselves in thespringtimethan in the winter.
True False 9. The best thing to tell asuicidal friend is "to pull yourself together"
and things will get better".
True False 10. It's a disgrace to feel such great emotional pain that you want to
die.
Fill-in:
11. List the five (5) categories of causes for teenage suicide.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
12. List any two (2) losses that could possibly result in adolescent suicide.
a.
b.
13. List any three (3) categories of pressure that could result in adolescent
suicide.
a.
b.
c.
14. List the three (3) categories of warning signs that indicate potential suicide.
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