The Master's Thesis is based on the online approach of suicide prevention of adolescents,
who participated in the online counseling program This is me. In the theoretical part, I began
with a description of lifestyles and definition of free time of young people. I then continued to
present mental health of adolescents and mental health issues of adolescents. In more detail I
presented three general mental disorders, which are depressive disorder, anxiety disorder and
eating disorders. In the next part of the theoretical work, I wrote about suicide among
adolescents and risk factors of suicide. It's followed by a general presentation of forms of help
to prevent suicide among young people. Of course, I also focused on the online counseling of
the program This is me. Within the research questions, I started with a qualitative analysis of
the secondary data, which I got from the editors of the website portal This is me. To protect
confidentiality, I did not include the entire questions of adolescents and the answers of the
online counselors in my thesis, however I included excerpts of the questions and answers in the
open coding, which is included among the appendices. Within the questions of adolescents, I
identified risk factors, coined as individual, family and social. Adolescences also experience
mental disorders, which are associated with the risk of suicide. These are the occurrence of
suicidal thoughts, self-harm and self-directed negative behaviors, such as suicide intention,
suicide plan and suicide attempt. The questions that adolescents asked in the online couseling
center are their call for help. Adolescents themselves either at the beginning or at the end
expressed a request for help, because they found themselves in a negative cycle that they can
not get rid of. Adolescents also do not know where to turn for help and hope that they chose the
right place. In their answers, the counselors encourage adolescents to talk with psychologists,
therapists, the school counseling service, a personal doctor and others. Online couselors include
important components of support and help in their responses, such as thanking for trust,
encouragment and empathic response. In their responses they include perspective of power and
knowledge to act, which enables them to offer adolescent the empowerment and knowledge to
find solutions. Online counselors ask young people to stay in touch with them and encourage
them to seek additional help. The results of the research could be an additional confirmation for
adolescnets and everyone else that seeking help is not shameful and that it is necessary to find
appropriate help and support in the case of youth suicide prevention. Adolescents can receive
it as part of anonymous inclusion in the online counseling of the program This is me.
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