Aim of the study: To investigate the possibilities of planning, succession and development of aid for adolescents in Kaunas city who have tried to commit suicide.
Objectives: 1. to define the main stages in providing help for adolescents who have tried to commit suicide; 2. to clarify interdepartmental obstacles providing help for adolescents in crisis; 3. to formulate recommendations for the development of aid for adolescents in Kaunas who have tried to commit suicide.
Methods: Qualitative, descriptive analysis. Information was gathered using semi-structured interview method. There were questioned 21 respondents from institutions involving four Lithuanian systems that provide aid for adolescents who have tried to commit suicide: Social Security, Health Service, Educational and Interior. Questions were related to suicide prevention, intervention and postvention.
Results: Main stages in providing aid for adolescents who have tried to commit suicide were defined: detecting a child who has tried or is at risk of committing suicide, providing urgent aid, and providing continued aid. Vacancies were detected in all stages of providing aid. Representatives from all the institutions that provide aid to adolescents who have tried to commit suicide agree that there is a need of interdepartmental cooperation in Lithuania, though the results of the analysis show that such cooperation has still been weakly developed. Three main obstacles in interdepartmental cooperation have been... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060613_124003-74364 |
| Date | 13 June 2006 |
| Creators | Grigonytė, Daina |
| Contributors | Misevičienė, Irena, Kairys, Jonas, Gendvilis, Stasys, Petrauskienė, Jadvyga, Starkuvienė, Skirmantė, Tamošiūnas, Abdonas, Bučiūnienė, Ilona, Kalėdienė, Ramunė, Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060613_124003-74364 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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