Suicide in Children and Adolescents

By - King, Robert A.(ed)

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003

ISBN 10 - 0521622263

ISBN 13 - 9780521622264

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Suicidal behavior

Shelf No - 19

Call Number - 362.280 SUI

Physical Description - 1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages) : illustrations

Notes - Includes index.

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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.

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