Suicide in Children and Adolescents

-Yale Univ., New Haven, CT.
-Experts from around the world address questions such as, how
can these deaths be prevented? Can they be anticipated? Are
there perceptible patterns of risk and vulnerability? What role
do families plan? What are the treatments? and more.
-Softcover.




List of contributors
Preface
1 The epidemiology of youth suicide 1
2 Suicide and the "continuum of adolescent self-
destructiveness": is there a connection? 41
3 Adolescent attempted suicide 63
4 Familiar factors in adolescent suicidal behavior 86
5 Biological factors influencing suicidal behavior in
adolescents 118
6 Psychodynamic approaches to youth suicide 150
7 Cross-cultural variation in child and adolescent suicide 170
8 An idiographic approach to understanding suicide in the young
198
9 Assessing suicidal behavior in children and adolescents 211
10 Suicidal prevention for adolescents 227
11 Cognitive behavioral therapy after deliberate self-harm in
adolescence 251
12 Follow-up studies of child and adolescent suicide attempters
271
13 Children and adolescents bereaved by a suicidal death:
implication for psychosocial outcomes and interventions 294