Auteur : Apter, Alan / King, Robert A. 1943-

Maison d'édition : Cambridge University Press

Date de publication : 2003

Collation : xiv, 320 p. : ill.

Collection : Cambridge child and adolescent psychiatry

ISBN : 0521622263

Langue : Anglais

Table des matières : 1. The epidemiology of youth suicide -- 2. Suicide and the continuum of adolescent self-destructiveness : is there a connection? -- 3. Adolescent attempted suicide -- 4. Familial factors in adolescent suicidal behavior -- 5. Biological factors influencing suicidal behavior in adolescents -- 6. Psychodynamic approaches to youth suicide -- 7. Cross-cultural variation in child and adolescent suicide -- 8. An idiographic approach to understanding suicide in the young -- 9. Assessing suicidal behavior in children and adolescents -- 10. Suicide prevention for adolescents -- 11. Cognitive behavioral therapy after deliberate self-harm in adolescence -- 12. Follow-up studies of child and adolescent suicide attempters -- 13. Children and adolescents bereaved by a suicidal death : implications for psychosocial outcomes and interventions

Résumé : 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 abticipated? 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 broucht together their current findings in Suicide in hildren and adolescents.

Mots-clés : Adolescents - Comportement suicidaire / Enfants - Comportement suicidaire / Jeunesse - Comportement suicidaire

Cote : WM 165 A655s 2003