Creating a Future: A Study of Resilience in Suicidal Female Adolescents

✍ Scribed by Robin D. Everall; K. Jessica Altrows; Barbara L. Paulson

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 96 KB
• Volume: 84
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1556-6678
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2006.tb00430.x

✦ Synopsis

The authors designed this study to understand how adolescents overcome suicidality from the subjective perspective of 13 previously suicidal female participants. A resilience framework was used to conceptualize the process. Data analysis using basic interpretive qualitative inquiry revealed 4 domains of resilience: social processes, emotional processes, cognitive processes, and purposeful action. The domains were inextricably linked; improvements in 1 domain produced changes across others, adding momentum to the resilience process. Implications for practice are discussed.