Healthy emotional expression: An intervention for suicide ideation among school students

Page: 370-373

Shweta Negi and Roopali Sharma (Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied Sciences, AUUP, Noida, Uttar Pradesh)

Suicidal ideation are the thoughts which effects the well-being of an individual. Suicide is an act where a person harm oneself in complete awareness and it can also leads to death of a person. One of the most common reason of self – harm is hopelessness. There are wide range of factors found to be responsible for suicide ideation among high school children starting from low self-esteem, teasing, bullying, low grades and existence of other psychopathology. This study was done to determine, whether Healthy emotional Expression is an Intervention for suicide ideation among school students. 55 Review of Literature suggests varied intervention of suicide ideation, written exposure, disclosure, music therapy, Writing emotions or Catharsis, promotion of group support, relaxation and mindfulness based meditation are one of the effective ways to deal with high school students having suicidal ideation.