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Youth suicide is a social issue that needs serious consideration among families, therapists and helping professionals. This article presents an actual case of a youth who completed suicide, and discussion of the hypothetical Satir model treatment of this youth while alive. The Satir model has numerous interventions that have current applications toward dealing with suicidal youth in a humanist and hopeful way, fostering youths' desire to live and to become more positively involved in their lives. In the past, Satir focused on coping stances in communication, and now the coping stances give a deeper understanding into the internal world.
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Lum, W., Smith, J. & Ferris, J. Youth Suicide Intervention Using the Satir Model. Contemporary Family Therapy 24, 139–159 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014381807717
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