- xiv, 320 p. : ill.
Cote : WM 165 A655s 2003
Adolescents - Comportement suicidaire ; Enfants - Comportement suicidaire ; Jeunesse - Comportement suicidaire
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.
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