Abstract
We are writing to you to allow us to enter into an ongoing debate concerning a write-up titled, “Young teenage suicides in Bangladesh – are mandatory Junior School Certificate exams to blame?”published in ‘International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction’by Mamun and Griffiths (2020a).Arafat (2020), are searcher from Bangladesh, initiated the debate through a letter to the editor of that journal raising several theoretical and procedural/methodological flaws of the original publication of Mamun and Griffiths (2020a).Arafat (2020) finds this publication as “potentially flawed” and “purely hypothetical” (p.1).Hereafter, Mamun, and Griffiths (2020b) categorically refuted each of the claims raised by Arafat (2020)to justify their stance and flows writing another letter to the editor. Space will not allow us to touch upon each of their arguments and counter-arguments rather we would shed light on the major issues of their dissonance cornering the methodological issues. At the same time, we would also highlight our opinions in this regard.
Highlights
Arafat (2020) raised serious concerns about the usefulness of newspaper sources to draw any conclusion with regards to the tacit causal relationship between teenage suicide and Junior School Certificate exam results
The coroners apply psychological autopsy through interviewing concerned individuals to reconstruct the incident of suicide
Are journalists designated to be trained to use psychological autopsy? Understandably, this is an area of expertise of psychologists, coroners, or suicidologists
Summary
Arafat (2020) raised serious concerns about the usefulness of newspaper sources to draw any conclusion with regards to the tacit causal relationship between teenage suicide and Junior School Certificate exam results. Mamun and Griffiths (2020b) expressed their astonishment as to why such methodological question was raised given the fact Arafat as a researcher is broadly reliant on newspaper sources in writing academic papers. The coroners apply psychological autopsy through interviewing concerned individuals to reconstruct the incident of suicide.
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