Suicide in Children and Adolescents

Experts from all areas of mental health care address the questions of prediction and prevention of suicide in young people.

Robert A. King (Edited by), Alan Apter (Edited by)

9780521622264, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 August 2003

334 pages, 21 tables
24.7 x 17.5 x 1.7 cm, 0.678 kg

'Knowledge is expanding rapidly in child and adolescent psychiatry and in suicidology alike. This new book summarizes and discusses the latest development in the field.' European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

In an epoch when rates of death and illness among the young have steadily decreased in the face of medical progress, the persistently high rates of youth suicide and suicide attempts around the world remain a tragic irony and a challenge to both our clinical practice and theoretical understanding. How can these deaths be prevented? Can they be anticipated? Are there perceptible patterns of risk and vulnerability? What role do families, gender, culture, and biology play? What are the treatments for and outcomes of suicide attempters? To address these questions, experts from around the world in all areas of psychiatry, from epidemiology, neurobiology, genetics and psychotherapy, have brought together their current findings in Suicide in Children and Adolescents.

1. The epidemiology of youth suicide Madelyn S. Gould, David Shaffer and Ted Greenberg
2. Suicide and the 'continuum of adolescent self destructiveness': is there a connection? Robert A. King, Vladislav V. Ruchkin and Mary E. Schwab-Stone
3. Adolescent attempted suicide Alan Apter and Danuta Wasserman
4. Familial factors in adolescent suicidal behavior David A. Brent and J. John Mann
5. Biological factors influencing suicidal behavior in adolescents Alan Apter
6. Psychodynamic approaches to youth suicide Robert A. King
7. Cross-cultural variation in child and adolescent suicide M. J. Kelleher (deceased) and D. Chambers
8. An idiographic approach to understanding suicide in the young Alan L. Berman
9. Assessing suicidal behavior in children and adolescents Cynthia R. Pfeffer
10. Suicide prevention for adolescents Israel Orbach
11. Cognitive behavioral therapy after deliberate self-harm in adolescence Richard Harrington and Younus Saleem
12. Follow-up studies of child and adolescent suicide attempters Julie Boergers and Anthony Spirito
13. Children and adolescents bereaved by a suicidal death: implications for psychosocial outcomes and interventions Cornelia L. Gallo and Cynthia R. Pfeffer
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Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ], Psychiatry [MMH], Paediatric medicine [MJW]