Séries de suicide impliquant des adolescents et des jeunes : culture et transmission intergénérationnelle

This analysis is based on two clusters of adolescent and young adult suicides, the first in a First Nations village and the second in a traditional Quebec community. The methodology includes a confirmation of the cases by the coroner’s report and interviews with parents, closed friends, professional...

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Main Authors: Tousignant, Michel, Garneau, Geneviève, Carbonell, Eliseu, Grandazzi, Guillaume, Morin, Nathalie
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:French
Published: 2020
Subjects:
psy
Online Access:http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=PPSY_592_0156
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Summary:This analysis is based on two clusters of adolescent and young adult suicides, the first in a First Nations village and the second in a traditional Quebec community. The methodology includes a confirmation of the cases by the coroner’s report and interviews with parents, closed friends, professionals and local leaders on the events preceding the deaths, the links between suicides and macro-social factors. The material shows closed links between suicides in both villages with a coordinated planning in some of them. There can also be a period of many months separating a suicide and a previous one to which it is linked without the first being considered as the trigger. In both sites, informants point out breaks in the intergenerational communications as an explanation, targetting the commodification of exchanges and sexual abuse among the First Nations girls. These problems can produce co-dependency among young people, leading to a chain of acting out. In both sites, there is a freezing of the transition process to adult life due to a low employment outlook. Cette analyse porte sur deux séries de suicides d’adolescents et de jeunes adultes, l’une dans un village des Premières Nations et l’autre dans un milieu traditionnel québécois. La méthodologie repose en premier lieu sur une validation des cas à partir des rapports de coroners`renvoi id="re1no1" idref="no1" typeref="note"b1`/renvoib, et elle inclut des entrevues avec des parents, des proches, des professionnels et des leaders de la communauté qui portent sur les circonstances des décès, les liens entre les suicides et les facteurs macro-sociaux. Les observations révèlent des rapports étroits entre les suicides dans les deux villages avec une planification commune pour certains des suicides. Il peut aussi exister un temps de latence de plusieurs mois entre un suicide et un précédent auquel il est associé sans que le premier soit considéré comme un élément provocateur. Dans les deux communautés, les témoignages attribuent les suicides à la présence de ruptures ...