Strengths-Based Assessment for Suicide Prevention: Reasons for Life as a Protective Factor From Yup'ik Alaska Native Youth Suicide.

ABSTRACT: Suicide is the second leading cause of death among American Indian and Alaska Native youth, and within the Alaska Native youth subpopulation, the leading cause of death. In response to this public health crisis, American Indian and Alaska Native communities have created strategies to protect their young people by building resilience using localized Indigenous well-being frameworks and cultural strengths. These approaches to suicide prevention emphasize promotion of protective factors over risk reduction. A measure of culturally based protective factors from suicide risk has potential to assess outcomes from these strengths-based, culturally grounded suicide prevention efforts, and can potentially address several substantive concerns regarding direct assessment of suicide risk. We report on

SUBMITTER: Allen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8359856 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature