Suicide in children and adolescents
By: edited by Robert A. King and Alan Apter.
Contributors: King, Robert A., 1943-; Apter, Alan.
Series: Cambridge child and adolescent psychiatry; Cambridge child and adolescent psychiatry series.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Children -- Suicidal behavior.; Teenagers -- Suicidal behavior.; Suicidal behavior.; Suicide -- Adolescent.; Suicide -- Child.; Suicide, Attempted -- Adolescent.; Suicide, Attempted -- Child.
Description: Suicide is the fourth most common cause of death in the U.S. among 10-14 year olds, third among 15-19 year olds, and second among 20-24 year olds. Experts from all areas of psychiatry, (including epidemiology, neurobiology, genetics and psychotherapy) have brought together in this volume the most recent findings in their fields to address important questions. How can these deaths be prevented? Can they be anticipated? Are there perceptible patterns? What role do families and gender play? What are the treatments for and outcomes of suicide attempters?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The epidemiology of youth suicide -- Madelyn S. Gould, -- David Shaffer, -- Ted Greenberg; title: Suicide and the "continuum of adolescent self-destructiveness": is there a connection? -- Robert A. King, -- Vladislav V. Ruchkin, -- Mary E. Schwab-Stone; title: Adolescent attempted suicide -- Alan Apter, -- Danuta Wasserman; title: Familial factors in adolescent suicidal behavior -- David A. Brent, -- J. John Mann; title: Biological factors influencing suicidal behavior in adolescents -- Alan Apter; title: Psychodynamics approaches to youth suicide -- Robert A. King; title: Cross-cultural variation in child and adolescent suicide -- Michael J. Kelleher, -- Derek Chambers; title: An idiographic approach to understanding suicide in the young -- Alan L. Berman; title: Assessing suicidal behavior in children and adolescents -- Cynthia R. Pfeffer; title: Suicide prevention for adolescents -- Israel Orbach; title: Cognitive behavioral therapy after deliberate self-harm in adolescence -- Richard Harrington, -- Younus Saleem; title: Follow-up studies of child and adolescent suicide attempters -- Julie Boergers, -- Anthony Spirito; title: Children and adolescents bereaved by a suicidal death: implications for psychosocial outcomes and interventions -- Cornelia L. Gallo, -- Cynthia R. Pfeffer.