Suicide in children and adolescents / edited by Robert A. King and Alan Apter.
"In an epoch when rates of death and illness among the young have steadily decreased in the face of medical progress, it is a tragic irony that persistently high rates of youth suicide and suicide attempts remain among the leading causes of death and morbidity in this otherwise vigorous age gro...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Cambridge child and adolescent psychiatry series.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "In an epoch when rates of death and illness among the young have steadily decreased in the face of medical progress, it is a tragic irony that persistently high rates of youth suicide and suicide attempts remain among the leading causes of death and morbidity in this otherwise vigorous age group. This worrisome transnational pattern poses both an urgent clinical and theoretical challenge." "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 and their outcomes for suicide attempters?" "To address these questions, experts from around the world in all areas of psychiatry, including epidemiology, neurobiology, genetics, and psychotherapy, have brought together their current findings in Suicide in Children and Adolescents."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521622263 9780521622264 |