A Research Proposal to Assess the Link Between A 7 page proposal for a study designed to test the link between suicidality and child abuse among six to eleven year old children. This paper uses a forum approach to explore this issue and to design effective intervention tactics. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Childhood depression in physically abused children has been linked to suicidality in those children by a
significant portion of the literature. While a volume of research exists on this topic for adolescent children, however, little exists for younger children. The purpose of this paper
is to present a research proposal designed to evaluate the link between suicidality and depressed and physically abused six to eleven year old children.
Theoretical Framework Among the many problems that we face as a society are suicide
and depression. These problems are overwhelming enough when adults are their target. When children are concerned, however, suicide and depression become even less acceptable societal plagues. Despite
that fact, each claims an astoundingly high number of young victims. Childhood depression, for example, affects an estimated six percent of our children and adolescents (Mahler, 2005). Of
every twenty children, in fact, one has struggled with severe depression at one point or another in their young lives (Mahler, 2005). Given that serious depression too often leads
to suicide, it is a problem that simply cannot be ignored. Numerous factors enter into the equation of whether or not an abused child might attempt suicide or entertain
ideas of suicide. These include income level, race, ethnicity, drug and alcohol use in the family and a number of other factors (Rossow, 2000; Kimokeo, 2006). Among children
between the ages of ten and nineteen, suicide ranks third among the most prominent causes of death in the US and other developed countries (Brent, 2004). For those that